You can't have the benefits of globalization without the responsibilities.

Africa defies all concepts that we hold to be true: our concept of neigbor, our concept of civilization, our concept of equality, of love. I mean, you can just forget about it. What Africa says about Europe and America is withering. It says we've built our Houses of Parliment and government on sand, because if we really believed the things we say we believe, we would not let 23 million Africans die of AIDS. You can't have the benefits of globalization without the responsibilities.

I now idealism is not playing on the radio right now (...). You don't see it on TV, irony is on heavy rotation, the knowingness, the smirk, the tired joke. I've tried them all out. Idealism is under siege, beset by materialism, narcissism, and all the other isms of indifference.