I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.