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Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there's anxiety about making the wrong one.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

When there's change, people are always anxious.

I - it's simply not for me to evaluate an independent rating agency's processes. But I will say that there was reason to be anxious - absolute reason to be anxious.

Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.

The consumer is going through a period around the world of uncertainty - whether geopolitical uncertainty, economic uncertainty - and that makes them a little nervous as well.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.