"What's particularly striking is the contempt this administration has
	for the rules. I was on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers
	during the Reagan administration (those were nonpolitical jobs back
	then); one thing I remember was that if the experts said a proposed
	trade restriction violated international trade law, that was that. By
	contrast, just about every protectionist step taken by the Bush
	administration has been clearly in violation. And if the major economic
	powers stop honoring the rules that preserve open global markets, the
	chances of future development in poor nations will be much reduced."

	"Where I come from, if an employee embarked on a major
	initiative without planning for the long run, misrepresented
	important facts and made ruinous miscalculations, that
	employee would be fired, along with his management team."

	"An evil is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice
	is never advanced in the taking of human life. Morality is never
	upheld by legalized murder." 

	"It is no longer enough to measure a company by standards of
	profit, efficiency, and market share; it's critical to ask how
	business contributes to standards of social justice, environmental
	sustainability, and values." 
	

	"The Bush administration is changing the nation in fundamental
	ways. However one feels about a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, over
	the long term a bullying, go-it-alone foreign policy wedded to
	a military doctrine of pre-emption is a recipe for destabilization
	and paranoia around the world."

	"The past, far from disappearing or lying down and being quiet,
	has an embarrassing and persistent way of returning and haunting
	us unless it has in fact been dealt with adequately."

	"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

	"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the
	chances for survival of life on earth as much as the
	evolution to a vegetarian diet."		
	

	"Fight war, not wars."		
	

	"True peace is not merely the absence of tension.
	It is the presence of justice."	
	

	"Over the years, the United States has sent many of
	its fine young men and women into great peril to fight
	for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land
	we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those
	that did not return."

	"It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to
	change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change
	of soul, than to kill them." 

	"War is never just another means that one can choose to
	employ for settling differences between nations....  As
	the charter of the United Nations organization and
	international law itself remind us, war cannot be decided
	upon, even when it is a matter of ensuring the common good,
	except as the very last option and in accordance with very
	strict conditions, without ignoring the consequences for
	the civilian population both during and after the military
	operations....  [War] is always a defeat for humanity."

	"I have no objections to churches so long as they
	do not interfere with God's work."

	"Let America listen to the rest of the world—and the
	rest of the world is saying, 'Give the inspectors time.'"

	"To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war
	must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I truly
	must question the judgment of any President who can say
	that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which
	is over 50% children is 'in the highest moral traditions
	of our country'. This war is not necessary at this time."

	"The concept of preventive war does not appear in the catechism."

	"Without development, we will never have peace. Before
	we suffered the East-West conflict, the Cold War, but
	now the conflict is North-South. It's not ideological,
	it's poverty that creates the conflict today. When will
	we reach the limit when the poor refuse to take it any
	longer, and the situation will spill over into violence
	or who knows what else? That's the principal concern."  

	"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
	When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

	"For the United States to think it can become the guardian
	of peace, threatening to intervene in any part of the world
	where a state may be preparing war, would be a dangerous
	illusion, destined not only to bring failure but a proliferation
	of wars without end."

	Reading "gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."

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