It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

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.

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.

From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.

Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

Everything you do is by choice. It may not seem so, but it is.

I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.

People are not their behaviors.