If jobs are important, education is important.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

Have you ever noticed that fear affects your physical mind and body?

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.