I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist.

The path to success used to be up and through an organization. Now the path to success is increasingly through self-promotion.

The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.

In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.

The rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy then they're doing now with a large share of an economy that is barely growing at all.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."