It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.

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

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

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

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.