The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do.

To educate girls is to reduce poverty.

However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.

No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.

Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers.

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.