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

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation. Ideally not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.

I think what gives me hope is I have the sense that the people of Kenya have turned the page. They are keen to get a new political dispensation. They are keen to fight corruption and impunity, and in that sense they are leaving the political elite behind.

Ameen Rihani, one of the earliest Arab Americans, devoted his life to bringing the East and the West together. We are not of the East or the West, he wrote. No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free.

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.