The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

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.

All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing.' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.