I don't see a coherent global order anywhere on the horizon.

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

We're wealthy people. We're sitting here in New York, Washington. We live in a fantastically wealthy country. We don't have to worry about food. We don't have to worry about clothing. We wore the same shirt. We don't have to worry about our safety. It's very easy for us to be environmentalists. It's very easy for me to be an environmentalist. It's very easy for me to care about making sure that we protect the forests and the whales, and all that stuff. It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question.