I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.

I am by nature a worried optimist.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.