Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

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.

Insecurity is love dressed in a child's clothing.

From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode . . . .