The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

Nothing big ever came from being small.

My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.