If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

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

Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.

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

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

It is tragic that so few young people in Western democracies vote. They have forgotten that their ancestors fought for the right to choose and change their leaders. They don't realise that their votes are more important than their tweets or Facebook posts.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.