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

Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

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

You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not.

Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps.

The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal.

The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security Council. Because the world was changing, and is changing very fast, and I felt the UN was holding on to old arrangements. Most governments felt that it has such a narrow power base, based on the results of the second world war.