No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.