I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had played on that, and kept all these friends they had made, and found a way of dealing with the terrorists through co-operation of international intelligence services, police exchange of information.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

There has to be a force on the horizon that can come very quickly. But the way we run and fund peacekeeping, this capacity is unavailable.

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.