Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to invest time into improving whatever it is they were called to do..

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

I thought of her as she, and she as her.

If we'd done this my way, ' Garrett went on, 'We'd have been here much earlier.''And drunk, most likely, ' said Maiev.'You say "drunk, " I say "happy", ' Garrett shrugged.

I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.