Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.