Eu Didn't Advance Our [eastern Europe] Democracy

Human Relations Tend To Be More Difficult When You're Dealing With Someone Who Weighs 30 Kilograms More Than You Do. That's When You Worry About Whether A Well-meaning Gesture Could Produce Complications. We Have No Problems With Countries Like Madagascar Or Bolivia, For Example. But Germany Is Our Neighbor And We Have A Shared Past. Besides, Germany Is Powerful And Ambitious And More Than Four Times As Large As We Are. It Makes Complete Sense That We Would Act Cautiously. It's Simply Realpolitik.

I Am Afraid There Are People Who Want To Stop The Economic Growth, The Rise In The Standard Of Living (though Not Their Own) And The Ability Of Man To Use The Expanding Wealth, Science And Technology For Solving The Actual Pressing Problems Of Mankind, Especially Of The Developing Countries.

I Don't Think There Is Any Global Warming. I Don't See The Statistical Data For That.

To Talk About Planning An Economic System Is To Talk In Old Terms, And I Find Myself Sometimes Having To Teach Westerners About What The Market Really Means.

As Someone Who Lived Under Communism For Most Of My Life I Feel Obliged To Say That The Biggest Threat To Freedom, Democracy, The Market Economy And Prosperity At The Beginning Of The 21st Century Is Not Communism Or Its Various Softer Variants. Communism Was Replaced By The Threat Of Ambitious Environmentalism.