Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

I don't mean to be funny.

I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.

There will be a "Oops 100." They'll be plenty more oopses. I'm not perfect. I'm human.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.