Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

The big issue is whether the United States will succeed in its venture of reshaping the Middle East. It is not clear to me that using military force is the way to do it. We should not have gone into Iraq. But we have.

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.