America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

People by and large will relate to the image you project.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

Healthcare is very much a high priority for me. Healthcare is also a huge issue for business, both big and small.

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.

I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

Dhoni is the best captain India ever had