Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

Imagination is a powerful magnet. The power of imagination

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

You're demonstrating a courage that most people can't even fathom: giving it all away in order to have yourself

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.

It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.