You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

It's not that easy to quit. When you look back in the American system it is very rare that people quit on issues of principle.

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able to follow through their dreams in six months time, to play an effective role in the future.

Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts so that the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 'no one shall be held in slavery or servitude' - ring true.