The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not a reduction, but an end-to absolute poverty...I have always found that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can make a huge difference.

It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.

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.