It's not that easy to quit. When you look back in the American system it is very rare that people quit on issues of principle.

Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the authority of universal ideals. Let us choose to reconcile the creative forces of private entrepreneurship with the needs of the disadvantaged and the requirements of future generations.

Normally when people resign they will organise their champagne farewell parties... and then they resurface somewhere.

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

I think the world has moved on.

We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.