The diversity of Europe is its strength. But for a single currency to work, over a region with enormous economic and political diversity, is not easy.

Behind Trump's promise to 'make America great again' lie many fallacies. The most important fallacy is that America's place in the world can be restored to the one it occupied after World War II, when Europe was still recovering from vast devastation and most developing countries were still European colonies. It can't be.

Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.'

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of capitalism. These two governments changed the rules governing labour bargaining, weakening trade unions, and they weakened anti-trust enforcement, allowing more monopolies to be created.

High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power.

Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.

Progress requires change.

Navigating a battle between partisan, progressive organizing and decentralized petition drives is, at bottom, like trying to choose between the Democratic Party and democracy. The ideas are on different planes.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Put up your guards, keep faith in God, I promise you all the world will be ours.

A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income

When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

You don't know how much you've grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.