Stephen Lewis Quotations

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

It is not clear what the impact of estrangement between the U.S. and some its allies will have on the financial sphere. The last G7 meeting did not achieve a great deal.

I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

It is always the village women who drive these things.

That distortion of the preventive apparatus ... is resulting in great damage and undoubtedly will cause significant numbers of infections which should never have occurred,

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

We have one girl, Nadia Underwood, who just went for her fifth shoot in Japan. She's only 17 and she's already made $250,000.

Wherever the capital inflows come from, it is clear that Iceland would not have been able to run so large a current account deficit without them and would have had to curb internal demand a while ago. The same is true, of course, of the U.S. (and of the U.K. for that matter). The key question in these instances is how reliable the capital inflows are.

Treasury yields have fallen across the board as the market waits to see how much damage the hurricane will do.

When people are dying by the thousands every day, unnecessarily, when we've had this horrendous pandemic unfold for two decades while the world stands by and watches - you'll do anything in your power to move the process.

Yet, when the men get infected, which so happens in the cities, and they go back to the rural areas to die, it is of course their wives -often infected and sick themselves- who look after the men until they die.

The ostensible purpose of the 'golden rule' is to enhance confidence in the Government's handling of fiscal policy. It is doubtful whether it is any longer fulfilling that function.

What seems to be happening is that U.S. business sentiment is faltering and consumer sentiment is tailing off.

At that point in time he did something that was unacceptable. It was unacceptable. Period.

There's a feeling the stock market is overbought and it would be dangerous to keep pushing it higher.

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

I should have moved for a continuation and deposed him. It affected the outcome. I called (Alcorn's) girlfriend without interviewing her in advance. It was a horrible mistake that prejudiced the case.

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.

It is worth noting that, in its revised forecasts for GDP growth, the OECD saw fit to raise its 1999 forecasts for most (euro-zone) member-countries, as compared with its June projections, but lowered those for Germany and Italy.

The large German banks now seem to be more interested in competing with Anglo-Saxon banks in international markets than in nurturing their long-standing domestic lending business.

I'm not big on titles, but I think any title that is associated directly with the Secretary General will gain access.

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.

In some ways, I think people who have been in the career service have an advantage.

But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

I don't think the world yet realizes the carnage that is to come. I don't think the world yet realizes the full, incomparable horror of AIDS, and its inexorable spread around the planet.

How do you save married women, who have no choice?

Gordon Brown's proudest boast is that, during his stewardship, the U.K. economy has consistently grown from one quarter to the next. The Bank Governor seems to be saying that this achievement was primarily a 'nice' decade phenomenon, and not the hard-won and well-merited result of outstandingly successful policies.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

the first dramatic signal from the U.S. administration that it is now ready to confront the pandemic and to save or prolong millions of lives.