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

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

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

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.