This is a fundamental difference between the US and China: In the US Constitution, the collective bows to the individual; in China by constitution, the individual bows to the collective.
—David Schlesinger, 2011 Aspen Ideas
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
—Michael Behe
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There’s one economy that you need to know and that is China plus America and it equals Chimerica.
—Niall Ferguson
Security and liberty are not a zero sum game. We have to be sure to protect them both when we develop policy.
—Jane Harman, 2011 Aspen Ideas
Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want.
—Joseph Nye, 2011 Aspen Ideas
To solve both the horrific crisis in global health and the paradox of escalating costs and decreasing health coverage in the United States, we need a unifying idea that provides moral grounding, a political basis for moving forward, and concrete standards for accountability. That idea is found in human rights—the right to health.
—Leonard Rubenstein
What if the US leadership proposed in the next round of the US-China Dialogue that the energy-hungry engines of global prosperity join together to discuss how they could cooperate in reducing their dependence on oil?
—Kevin G. Nealer
It is unfortunately the challenge of a generation to engage in a worldwide struggle against terror.
