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 it.

Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today. Our prosperity is linked inextricably to the maintenance of a strong world economy, an open international trading system, and stable global financial markets.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

There are idiots. Look around.

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.