It's great to be asked to help Bob raise public awareness about third world debt and poverty.

[IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler and other senior officials provided similar visions -- a world free of debt, poverty, hunger and disease, while full of economic partnership.] I am aware of the critical debate about globalization, and many questions have to be of concern to all of us, ... But I also want to be clear: if the IMF did not exist already, this would be the time to invent it.

I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

The best way to help protect consumers is to raise awareness of the issue and equip them to spot counterfeit software and help them understand what they should do about it.

What would help is creating an awareness that this is a problem that is not going to go away. We need to come up with some creative ideas and solutions to address the needs. It's going to take more discussions among community leaders, and the community is going to need to decide what [they] want to do.