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

Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms

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

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.

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

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

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