For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

We often hear a lot about subsidies, because it's often the powerful talking about the poor; the poor don't have enough voice to question the privileges.

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.