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If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.
Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.
Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.
You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.
We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.
In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.
It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that.
A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.
When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.
What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.
Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.
I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.
The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.
There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.
Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.
In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.
The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.
John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.
Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.
There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.
When you can't rely on sticking a pipe in the ground, what you have to rely on is unlocking the energy and talent of all your people - men and women.
Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.
We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life.
There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.
Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.
Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.
I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.
I think there are different kinds of elites. I think there are venal elites, and self-interested elites, and selfish elites, and I think there are visionary elites.
Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the opportunities were being shared fairly.
That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers.
When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.
I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first choice is to run to the golf course if the weather is nice.
Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.
Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.
If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.
Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.
Everyone needs to get together and say: "Our objective is to preserve and enhance the game and the planet on which it's played. To make golf a leader in greening the world."
Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.
When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just always most comfortable with the people I grew up with.
I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.