Devaluations are never easy.

My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options

Do you smoke, Herr Cabal?""Only to be antisocial, " replied Cabal, making no move.

I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.

I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice

I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.