Canada stands out as making a sensible and positive contribution to the world. I'm saying that maybe because of its inclination toward multilateralism. Support for the environmental protection cause. It's relationship between people and nature.

Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That's the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over-anticipate. I think it's the case with many women leaders. We tend to over do it.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

Diversity in and of itself is a strong positive.

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late