I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.

There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And [that's] the first direction to go, [but] that need not prevent you from doing all the other equalities that you want.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system, to say that the priorities don't include education is a mistake, whether it's [at the] domestic level or at the global level.

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.