I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth.

If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.

Fear stagnation not adventure.

Trust can be a hard lesson

Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.

People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.