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There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.

Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.