Ian Bremmer

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in…

— Ian Bremmer

I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I…

— Ian Bremmer

Berlin is still a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together…

— Ian Bremmer

There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover…

— Ian Bremmer

State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about…

— Ian Bremmer

I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you…

— Ian Bremmer

In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the…

— Ian Bremmer

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

— Ian Bremmer

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

— Ian Bremmer

I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used…

— Ian Bremmer

Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The…

— Ian Bremmer

We're wealthy people. We're sitting here in New York, Washington. We live in a fantastically wealthy country. We don't have to worry…

— Ian Bremmer

I think the best way to control a population is to urbanize and to educate women. We have seen historically in many,…

— Ian Bremmer

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot…

— Ian Bremmer

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So…

— Ian Bremmer

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…

— Ian Bremmer

I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used…

— Ian Bremmer

We live in a fantastically wealthy country. We don't have to worry about food. We don't have to worry about clothing. We…

— Ian Bremmer

The real question is not are there other forms of life in the universe, but are there other intelligent forms of life…

— Ian Bremmer

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

— Ian Bremmer

Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get…

— Ian Bremmer

The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out…

— Ian Bremmer

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

— Ian Bremmer

Whether it is gun control lobby, health care lobby, or abortion, pro-choice lobby, whatever it is, people are always trying to say…

— Ian Bremmer

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

— Ian Bremmer