What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity.

We live in a culture of destructive transparency.

Magazine articles are the new books.

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.

Trading volume was far from what we wanted. Velocity was very low, at about 25 per cent (for the whole of 2005).