If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran station, Egypt station, Syria station, and all we asked of them were three things: Keep your palms open, your prices low and don't bother Israel too much, and you can do whatever you want to your own people.

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.