Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.
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.
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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.
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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.
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.
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.
I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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.
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.
There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
