Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge

If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.

There is a certain tendency on the part of some Americans to treat the UN as a multilateralism à la carte where you pick and choose where it suits you and when it doesn't suit you, you pull back.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

Over time you get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow emotions and temper to flare up because you're displeased with something, or you want to change it.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.