The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe in retrospective that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has however been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

In high school I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.