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.

The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.

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

Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things.

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

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.