Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.

My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.

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

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

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

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.