Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth.

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.