You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

There are idiots. Look around.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.