The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

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.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

Dream and Done

Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

I enjoy small towns, I've got my friends there. I have friends in L.A. too, but I'm not much on traffic.

Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.