Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because of the way the press plays it, he will say terrorism is his biggest fear. But for somebody living on a small island state, then it is climate change, the rise of the sea level, for his whole island may be washed away. If I go to southern Africa, they tell me it is HIV/AIDS and somewhere in Asia it is poverty. This is also why you will find it difficult to find agreements, because if you want someone to be concerned about your threat, then you should be concerned about his.

Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the almost similar structure and similar language, they find a way of dealing with each other.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

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

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.