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"More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development."
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"Every human being is equally wealthy according to God's divine providence."

"You cannot fix racism with more racism."

"How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY?"

"It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species."
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"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."

"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development."

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

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community."

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

"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."

"In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion."

"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."

"If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?"
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