We need political leadership that will move the world away from war into solving its problems through dialogue and negotiation, to build friendship with people, which is not what we've had with this war on terror.

The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war.

One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.

That will be my focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.

We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan that kill women and children. He meets with his advisers every Tuesday morning and signs extrajudicial killings. To me, those are not the actions of a peace person.