How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.