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

Obama saying Gaddafi must go. Putting it upfront like that... it's not very helpful.

If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.

Change is a process which has to be managed. If it's managed and managed well in the interest of the nation and the people, the likelihood is that it will end well.

The status quo cannot work.

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

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.