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.

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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.