"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."

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"In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear."

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"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations."

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"We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children."

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"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."

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"There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players."

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"The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being."

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"In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda."

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"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."

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"If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom."

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"If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?"

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