The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

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.

You're okay now... You're okay because I'll be holding you like this from now on.

Genius is eternal patience.

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues.

I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity.

There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.