There is no sense in trying to help developing nations develop their capacity and build their economic viability if you don't give them markets.

I can only say we were trying to do whatever we could to help Rachel's voice be heard, This is far too important an issue for everyone to paper it over again, with everyone shaking hands for a New York Times photographer. It's an extraordinarily rare picture of the ways that New York cultural institutions make their decisions about what to produce.

Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.

The Quartet itself must continue, but the role of a disenfranchised leader of that Quartet does not seem to me to be a particularly attractive thing to spend your life doing. And so I am considering (leaving) -- but not yet decided.

If you are an envoy of the quartet, you have a certain amount of possibilities in negotiations. If you are the secretary of state of the United States, I would have to say, there is a little more clout associated with it. And to push it over the edge, one needs not envoys, but secretaries of state.

Anwar is not only a friend and valued colleague, he was a distinguished chairman of our Development Committee, and a man who believed in speaking his mind,