If jobs are important, education is important.

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread earner and so on. So there is a kind of generation of inequality, [and], on top of the fact, women have pregnancies and periods, [and] when the children are very small, there are greater demands on their time. So one way or another women have had a pretty rough deal in the past, and there's no reason why that should continue, and any country that has tried to remedy that has succeeded in doing so.

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.