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.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

We live in a fantastically wealthy country. We don't have to worry about food. We don't have to worry about clothing. We don't have to worry about our safety. 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.

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

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

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.

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