The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

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.

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.

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.

Be happy without picking flaws.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

A grief travels with us as far as we carry it.

The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth, " he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.

Pride avarice and envy are in every home.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

I am human and I make mistakes.

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.