Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

The future is a great land.

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.

Bring Your Child to Work Day -- that's how we got George W. Bush.

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!