Yet behind that extraordinary front presented to the world was one of the shrewdest political minds I ever encountered.

We believe you can achieve much more through persuasion and by encouraging China to open up to the outside world than by turning your back on China,

I hope that in the next few days we demonstrate as a world our complete solidarity in this fight which is so important to us.

what we hold dear in this country and in other civilized nations throughout the world.

The state of Africa is a scar on the conscience of the world, but if the world as a community focused on it we could heal it,

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.