The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

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

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

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.

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.