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

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

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

I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

The real question is not are there other forms of life in the universe, but are there other intelligent forms of life out there right now. Because the universe is not only really big but it's also really long. It's been around for a long time; it's going to be around for a long time.

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