[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights to control their borders.

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.

The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as 'weapons of mass destruction'.

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

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.

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.