Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. – Kenneth Clarke
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for ones own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. – Rowan D. Williams
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. – Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world. – Lech Walesa
