The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

Politics is compromise.

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.