We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

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

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

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world.