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

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

Freedom, Liberty

"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance."

Equality, Development, Goal, Building

"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."

Want,

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

Nation, Country, Justice, Principles, Sight

"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization."

People, Values, Benefits, Globalization

"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."

Opportunity, Iraq, Security

"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."

People, Values, Confidence

"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community."

Society, Business, Community, Labor

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

Education, Family, Power, Society

"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."

People, Hope, Countries, Open

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"Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American Author

Family, Kiss, Children

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Family, Success, Achievement, Children, Enjoyment

"I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

Barack Obama, American President

Family, Mistake, Values, Baby, Daughters

"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Family, Pleasure, Sorrow

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."

Barack Obama, American President

Family, Faith, Success, Love, African

"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Family, Business, Character, Man

"My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable."

Diane Abbott, British Politician

Family, Mother

"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

Dean Acheson, American Statesman

Family, Father, Example

"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."

John Acton, English Historian

Family, Mother, Being, Constitution, Country

"I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family."

Gary Ackerman, American Politician

Family, Thought, Decision, Congress