We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

You have to wake up every day ready to start again.