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.

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

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.

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 certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

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