Sharing experience and building public support for the full range of rights is more powerful than legal cases.

I want to see a UN that enables a gathering of energies in which business plays its proper role.

I don't think we in Ireland have to follow slavishly what other countries have done. Ireland has its own strengths - in family life, in the local community, in the concept of meitheal, a very traditional form of cooperation in rural Ireland. Three or four or five neighbors get together, exchanging labor, farm equipment, and so on. There are strong solidarity overtones. That tradition is being translated today into community self-development.

If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.