Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Nothing recedes like success.

My character is not flawless.

Simplicity of approach is always best.

Heaven and the spirit world are much more real, beautiful and lasting than the world which you can see with your natural eyes at this very moment.

We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.