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

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

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

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

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

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.