The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.