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"We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face."
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"Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about."

"We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face."
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"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community."

"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."

"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."

"We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step."

"We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children."

"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."

"Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation."

"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations."
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