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“When workers are not able to pay for a few loaves of bread with their monthly earnings, their leaders are not meeting the most basic needs of their people.”
Ela Bhatt, founder of the three-million strong
Self Employed Women’s Association in India |
“Do you want to be living, when we come out of the other side of this financial crisis, with the wreckage of yet more years of neglect or do we want to keep on going on this when you know as well as I do, that working in the poorest countries in the world is the least expensive thing we can do to fulfill our responsibilities as global citizens?”
Keynote address of former US President Bill Clinton
at a special United Nations event in February |
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“It could be bingo for Africa, or a lotto.”
Alain Joyandet, French Secretary of State for Cooperation,
on the French Government’s decision to potentially introduce
a special lottery to supplement development aid |
“The United States will never become China, and China will never become the United States. But the living fact is… our interest has never been interwoven so closely, and the mutually beneficial cooperation between our two countries has never been so broad, and the driving force boosting the China-U.S. relationship has never been so strong.”
State Councilor Dai Bingguo, who oversaw foreign policy at the first meeting of the U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington, DC, in July |
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“So in summary, Your Majesty, the failure to foresee the timing, extent and severity of the crisis and to head it off, while it had many causes, was principally a failure of the collective imagination of many bright people, both in this country and internationally, to understand the risks to the system as a whole.”
Reply of the British Academy to the Queen’s question: why had nobody noticed that the credit crunch was on its way? |
“We will pay for this one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse gas emissions today, and we’ll have to take an economic hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives.”
Anthony C. Zinni, a retired US Marine general and the former head of the Central Command, wrote recently in a report as a member of a military advisory board on energy and climate at Center for Naval Analyses (CAN), a private group that does research for the US Navy |
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“We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and humane life we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing, and effective and compassionate medical care. Unless we can do this, man may degenerate sooner from environmental diseases than from hunger.”
The late scientist Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, in his Nobel lecture in 1970 |
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