getting people to sit in the back office and connect dots has not been their strong suit. Now they know they have to do it. The question is, Will they? |
I think most Americans still hope for a peaceful and beneficial future with China. As (former) President (Bill) Clinton once said, we have more to fear from a poor weak China than from a rich and democratic China. |
In recent years, both China and India have adopted foreign policies that have increased their attractiveness to others. But neither country yet ranks high on the various indices of potential soft-power resources that are possessed by the U.S., Europe and Japan. |
She did a good job of explaining what has been a veiled policy, ... She has a vision of democracy in the Middle East as a means of eliminating terrorism, but there is an inadequate roadmap for implementing that strategy. We just didn't hear about it. |
She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look over your back. |
The government really needs to focus on recruiting people for their first job and first opportunity. Often, most people simply price themselves out of the market. |
The resistance to globalization has a new quality today. You have populist leaders in developing countries who are empowered by high oil prices and you have a protectionist climate in the rich countries. The two trends reinforce each other and could slow globalization. |
They're nice ideals, appropriate especially in this setting celebrating Woodrow Wilson, but they're not enough, ... The strategy wasn't there and it hasn't been there. |
We appear to be turning to a conservative cycle in the major countries. President Bush's administration will find they have more allies, and this will be a big plus for them. |