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

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.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

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.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.