White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

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.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

Be good, or be good at it.

We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.

Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

We are what we do, and not what we think we must do.

Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.