We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays.

Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

What's the point in having a company of secretaries?

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.