No, Most Of Our Political Elite Has

It Has Always Been My View That Terrorism Is Not Spawned By The Poverty Of Money; It Is Spawned By The Poverty Of Dignity. Humiliation Is The Most Underestimated Force In International Relations And In Human Relations. It Is When People Or Nations Are Humiliated That They Really Lash Out And Engage In Extreme Violence.

I Don't Know What The Average Income Of Muslim-americans Is, But Muslim-american Immigrants Of Recent Vintage, I Bet They Have A Very Above-average Representation In Professional And Business Occupations.

America Is The Greatest Engine Of Innovation That Has Ever Existed, And It Can't Be Duplicated Anytime Soon, Because It Is The Product Of A Multitude Of Factors: Extreme Freedom Of Thought, An Emphasis On Independent Thinking, A Steady Immigration Of New Minds, A Risk-taking Culture With No Stigma Attached To Trying And Failing, A Noncorrupt Bureaucracy, And Financial Markets And A Venture Capital System That Are Unrivaled At Taking New Ideas And Turning Them Into Global Products.

We're Going In The Wrong Direction And I Think The Only Way To Counter That Is To Bring The Story Home In Really Concrete Ways To People - In Ways That Kids Can Understand And Non-scientists Can Understand.

Oil Is A Tangible Commodity, So There Is A Global Market. The Fact That We May Need Less May Affect The Global Price Because We're Big Consumers: We Probably Take About A Quarter Of Global Demand. But If Suddenly, Let's Just Use A Crazy Example, Fighting In The Middle East Led To The Closure Of The Strait Of Hormuz And No Oil Could Get Out Through The Strait Of Hormuz, Well That Would Affect China, India, Europe, It Will Affect The Whole Global Economy. It Will Affect Us, Too, Then.