We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

I think the world has moved on.

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.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

After the end of the cold war, everybody thought, fantastic, finally the UN may be able to do what it was originally set up to do without big power divisions. It would be easy to get them to come together to resolve things. You will recall, on the first Gulf war, you almost got a unanimous resolution and a very solid coalition.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.