Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

In fact UN is more of a galaxy of organisations and agencies than one machine.

You may have noticed over the years that the UN became a bit more media-friendly, a bit more open to the media than in the past.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

We all make mistakes.