A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.

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

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

Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.