If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

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.