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Mary Robinson

The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.

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There are some parts of the business world, in my judgment, that are actually trying to ensure that the U. S. does not take on board the preponderance of arguments for global warming, and that is something I am really very concerned about.

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The corporate sector per se is bottom-line oriented. It can be very corrupt and it is not very principled. That is why I don't think it is sufficient just to have voluntary codes of behavior. I am in favor of legislation which helps to ensure that there is an even playing field and rewards those who play by the rules.

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The UN may not be very effective but I am a fan of the idea of the United Nations. I have been there, I know the problems. To parody Winston Churchill: It is the worst system, except we don't have any other.

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I want to see a UN that enables a gathering of energies in which business plays its proper role.

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When we see companies who are in complicit relationships with China, for example, making huge profits by providing China with the very software that enables the state to censor its own people, that is not acceptable. We need to engage with such companies to make their responsibilities clear.

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Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

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Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

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