The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is ‘The Daily Show’ with Jon Stewart, if he’ll have me. It’s not competitive with CNN and it’s too much fun.

I should not be judged by a standard that’s not applied to everyone else.

I think that liberals need to grow up.

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

When you’re failing, there’s a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

The big difference is that Bush appears to view foreign policy from the pragmatic, problem-solving perspective and Gore has a somewhat messianic approach. He wants to do sweeping things that will change the world in...

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

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

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

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expense of it,” [John] Adams wrote. “There should not be a district of one mile...

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

which is not to pick sides but to explain what I think is happening on the ground. I can’t say, ‘This is my team and I’m going to root for them no matter what they...

I don’t want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

American influence is not what it used to be.

We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world–and a good part of the nonindustrialized world as well–has better cell phone service than the United States. Broadband is faster...

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

I occasionally find myself reluctant to be pulled into a world that’s not mine, in the sense that I’m not a religious guy.

Alaska itself is an unusual state.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

Culture follows power.

I’d be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

Why they still hate us, 13 years later,” Washington Post, 09/05/2014)

America’s growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with America’s growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

Some of these forces have gained strength because of a lack of other alternatives. For decades the Middle East has been a political desert. . . . In much of the Muslim world Islam became...

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State. But I don’t see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

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...

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it’s tough to replace that.

I grew up in Mumbai.

I’m largely in favor of financial reform.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I’m happy to talk to him.

The Chinese economy’s still not that much of a consumer economy.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in...

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty – the sense that they haven’t actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty....

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

It hasn’t been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

If we didn’t have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn’t mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The...

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

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

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

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.