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.