When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable and more prosperous world, a world in which every person in every country can reach their full potential.

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

In the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk-adverse. They don't move positions as quickly and as erratically as men. Maybe it is a bit less profitably, but I think it would have been less risky.

The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.