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.

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

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.

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.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

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