Latest Ian Bremmer Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Ian Bremmer

  Done, Sometimes

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• 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.

  Ian Bremmer

  Wall, Thinking, Together

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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

  Ian Bremmer

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• 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 about food. We don't have to worry about clothing. We wore the same shirt. We don't have to worry about our safety. It's very easy for us to be environmentalists. It's very easy for me to be an environmentalist. It's very easy for me to care about making sure that we protect the forests and the whales, and all that stuff. It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

  Ian Bremmer

  Country, People, Safety

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• 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 around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.

  Ian Bremmer

  World, Interest, Direct

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question. Whenever you are talking about these issues, it's not a question of restricting rights. It's a question of restricting whose rights, and providing for whose rights and that's a tricky balance.

  Ian Bremmer

  Night, People, Appreciate

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• 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. Now, the real question is not are there other forms of life out there, but are there other intelligent forms of life out there right now. Because the universe is not only really big but it's also really long. It's been around for a long time; it's going to be around for a long time.

  Ian Bremmer

  Real, Believe, Intelligent

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• I think the best way to control a population is to urbanize and to educate women. We have seen historically in many, many countries that once women are educated and have opportunities, and that happens when they live in cities and once they improve their economies, they no longer want to have eight kids. They want to have one or two or maybe three. And that is much more sustainable for them because they have other opportunities.

  Ian Bremmer

  Country, Kids, Opportunity

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things. I think political science is bad at prediction. I think what we really do well is in a number of instances where politics matters, we can do a better job of tell you what is happening now, than other people. So, we can look at Syria today. We can look at the Eurozone today. And we can look at areas where politics is a driver and we can give you a pretty good sense in those areas of here is how to understand today.

  Ian Bremmer

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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

  Ian Bremmer

  Powerful, World, Moments

  "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.

• I don't see a coherent global order anywhere on the horizon.

  Ian Bremmer

  Order, Horizon

  "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.

• In the nearer term, the likeliest source of risk is a conflict between China and the U.S. These are now the two largest economies in the world, and the combination of their economic interdependence, the sharp differences in their political and economic values, and the growing divergence in their interests makes this relationship potentially dangerous for everyone who might be affected by it - which means pretty much everyone.

  Ian Bremmer

  Mean, Two, Differences

  Source: bigthink.com

• There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the Arab Spring was merely the prelude to a deeper and much farther-reaching upheaval in the region that has greater impact on countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia.

  Ian Bremmer

  Country, Spring, Iran

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Ian Bremmer

  Moving, Pace, Durability

  "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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

  Ian Bremmer

  War, Two Worlds, Rivals

  "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.

• 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.

  Ian Bremmer

  Technology, Empowering, World

  "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.

• 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.

  Ian Bremmer

  Littles, Etc, Imf

  "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.

• 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.

  Ian Bremmer

  Strong, World, Today

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Ian Bremmer

  College, Challenges, Fifteen

  Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Ian Bremmer

  Ideas, Together, Different

• 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.

  Ian Bremmer

  Girl, College, Age

• I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

  Ian Bremmer

  Country, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

• 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.

  Ian Bremmer

  Wall, Thinking, Identity

• It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

  Ian Bremmer

  Years, Care, Environment

  Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

• I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my position in the world and that doesn't make me a better person.

  Ian Bremmer

  Thinking, People, World

  Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.