41 Quotes by Jody Williams

If maintenance is deferred, these buildings and structures decay to the point that major capital outlay is required.

In poverty, people are possessions. In the middle class, possessions means things,

By the late 1980s, there was the beginning of awareness about a significant global landmine problem, and small steps were being taken to try to deal with the problem.

I decided one night after working with this one foster baby who kept pulling his feed tube out of his nose, I decided to use my two degrees in fashion design and make an outfit that would stop him from pulling these tubes out. That's how it began. There are so many other parents out there that could benefit from something like this.

I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

Emotion without action is irrelevant.

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.