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.

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

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.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexities.

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

You little prick. It's a whelk...it's a...it's a...dead whelk!

War remains the decisive human failure.

It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't.

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes.

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.