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.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

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.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.

I want to work on environmental issues.

I am old, but the Gods still love me.

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

Your capacity to grow determines your capacity to lead.

I love you more than the pool hall, but not as much as football.

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.