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.

In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my position in the world and that doesn't make me a better person.

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

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.

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

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.