In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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.
Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.
The world is changing very profoundly.
I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
American influence is not what it used to be.
I grew up in Mumbai.
I'm largely in favor of financial reform.
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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.
Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.
CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
Alaska itself is an unusual state.
I think that liberals need to grow up.
