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

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or another, but basically has had a great deal of interest in humanitarian causes both within the country and abroad. Even when they criticize the mechanism to which it flows.

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.

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

To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.