We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.

There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.