Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

In my dreams it happens, when I wake up I just hope for an even better and stronger UN.