The Security Council should be seen as the executive committee of the global security system set up after World War II. Its members, and especially the Permanent 5 (P5), have a special responsibility for international peace and security.

Reform is a process, and not an event.

My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

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.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.

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