The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

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.

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.

Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world

We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.