If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit like the way we treat the sea. It doesn't belong to any particular country, but to all of us, but I'm not sure some of the powerful are ready for that sort of solution.

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

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as 'weapons of mass destruction'.

Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.