Physical infrastructure remains important (particularly in developing nations), but concurrently INVESTING in the development of a knowledge-based ECONOMY is ESSENTIAL to sustaining healthy economic growth and CREATING well-paying JOBS in a highly competitive, ideas-driven global economy.

Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the TOXIC emissions from our HEART; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking PEOPLE, regardless of their BELIEFS, should PRACTICE.

If we GET it RIGHT, there NEED not be LOSERS.

A lot of people are happy to GIVE money to charities but are WARY of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any VALUE.

I just find Bobby KENNEDY's short campaign for PRESIDENT so INSPIRING because his RHETORIC identified what America can be like if we CARE about each other.

Just as we can no longer pretend that ducking under wooden desks will keep US safe from a NUCLEAR BOMB, we must no longer pretend that a large nuclear stockpile will protect us from the most immediate SECURITY threats the UNITED States faces.

There are BIG issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These KINDS of questions are something the President of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY MUST keep his eye on.

The structure of LIFE I have described in BUILDINGS - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the HUMAN person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

I made a list of PEOPLE who NEEDED just a LITTLE bit of money. And when the list was COMPLETE, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

As a BLACK PERSON in AMERICA, I am twice as LIKELY as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my HEALTH. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.