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

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things. I think political science is bad at prediction. I think what we really do well is in a number of instances where politics matters, we can do a better job of tell you what is happening now, than other people. So, we can look at Syria today. We can look at the Eurozone today. And we can look at areas where politics is a driver and we can give you a pretty good sense in those areas of here is how to understand today.

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

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

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

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.