Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind.

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

We must bring a message of solidarity, of mutual respect and, above all, of hope. Business cannot afford to be seen as the problem.

The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security Council. Because the world was changing, and is changing very fast, and I felt the UN was holding on to old arrangements. Most governments felt that it has such a narrow power base, based on the results of the second world war.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.