102 Quotes by James Wolfensohn

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror.

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

We regret that there were those whose sole purpose was destruction, which coloured the currents outside these buildings.

One of the assumptions that divides institutions of faith from those based on politics and international agreements is the automatic assumption that you have to teach me spirituality, that you have to give me a moral center, that you must convince me there's more to development than economic mechanisms.

One need only look at the cement barriers surrounding these buildings to understand the big difference of the past year.

My ... agenda is only a beginning ? but it is a gateway through which we must step if we are to get back to the road map, and move to a settlement of this bitter and wasteful conflict,

I am just going to see in the next quarter of this year what my own plans are, and see whether I can still make a contribution, or maybe there will be others who can do better than me.

I look forward to reporting to you, both in a Russian capacity but also as this year's chair of the G8. I am here both to report to you and get your guidance.