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

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.

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.

Never stop believing in your dreams or the power within you to make them come true.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

I like characters that do big things boldly and are driven by intensely personal feelings.

Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor.

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.