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.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.