I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

The man with courage is a majority.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.