I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done.

The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more than a health crisis. It is a threat to development itself.

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

I laugh a lot inside and outside, and at myself sometimes.

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

I was an ordinary boy at school, a young man. In fact, what did the headmaster once say? "You're constantly challenging those in authority; questioning and challenging those in authority." Which was not really the way I saw it. I felt there were questions that had to be answered, and things that weren't quite right.

We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.