We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.

I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

Do we have the will to make poverty history?

Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.