The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.

My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is none. These are just basic problems requiring basic work. Nothing magic about it.

Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very important. The US corporations dominate Washington. The big oil companies, Wall Street banks and the military-industrial complex - they rule this country and their influence and power has to be broken.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.