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

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

Everybody needs to understand that policies are going to change to make it unprofitable if you wreck the planet, those companies that continue exploring and developing fossil fuel resources for which there is no safe use are going to pay a very heavy cost for that.