Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

With massive arsenals still on hair-trigger alert, a global holocaust is just as possible now, through mistakes or misjudgments, as it was during the depths of the Cold War.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of... permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

Globalization is a policy, not an act of God.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.