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Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.

As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.