Trump was sitting there with his arms crossed, clearly not liking the fact that they were ganging up on him, he eventually agreed and said okay, he’ll sign it. And at that point, he stood up, he put his hand in his pocket, his suit jacket pocket, and he took two Starburst candies out, threw them on the table and said to Merkel, ‘Here, Angela, don’t say I never give you anything.’.

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The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

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corporations government people

Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.

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empowering technology world

Berlin is still a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way. It's a very young city. It's a vibrant city. It's an exciting city. It's a city that's also scarred by history. I think that's to be celebrated and graffiti is to be celebrated. Graffiti in Berlin is very different than when they spray something on the wall dividing the west bank and Israel. And should be treated as such in Berlin.

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wall together thinking

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

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two-worlds rivals war

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

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powerful moments world

I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.

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narcissistic believe thinking

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

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political believe thinking

It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.

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durability pace moving

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

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economics matter country

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

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girl college age

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things.

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Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

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strong today world

International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension of the (increasingly conflicting) values and interests of member states.

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imf etc littles

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

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fifteen college challenges

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

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innovation technology space

Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.

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different together ideas

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

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waste growth mean

Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks are asked all sorts of questions they don't have the ability to answer. And if you're getting paid to answer questions as analysts at banks are you never want to be in the position of saying you don't know.

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issues political important

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.

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done sometimes

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

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wall identity thinking