The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

I've always been interested in why countries appear and disappear. And the curious thing is how often it happens.

Ask your friends how many stars will be in the U.S. flag in 50 years? And the reason why that's a reasonable question is because there has never been a President of the United States who's been buried under the same flag he was born under.

The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.

China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.