I don't see a coherent global order anywhere on the horizon.

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.

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 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.

Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle of millions of Christians going outside the institutional church to find spiritual food.

Character is that which can do without success.

My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.