In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.

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

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has become the secret friend of their author.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort.

Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's.

Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however.

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.