39 Quotes by Ian Bremmer

Today's exceptionally tight market gives marginal producers unprecedented power and greater geopolitical importance. They have the ability to press. They have leverage.

Without question, this is the worst political-risk year we've seen for energy supplies since 1973.

The upside is the culture of entrepreneurship that comes from education and the belief in opportunities. It creates a very optimistic outlook.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.