I think countries are now, leaders are now more conscious of the importance of having women engage in their country's development plan. Because again, and I say this over and over and over again, when we invest in women they invest back in their families, they invest in their communities, and they invest in their countries.
Interpretation
Investing in women leads to broader societal benefits.
This quote emphasizes the crucial role that women play in the development of societies. When women are given the opportunity to participate in the development plan of their countries, they tend to invest the benefits back into their families, communities, and nations, thus fostering overall growth and sustainability.
In practice
During a conference on global development, advocating for women's participation in economic plans.
Throughout my career, from Jamaica to Nigeria, Pakistan to Switzerland, I've learned that effective diplomacy means more than shaking hands and staging photo ops. It means developing real, robust relationships. It means finding common ground and managing points of differentiation. It means doing genuine, old-fashioned, people-to-people diplomacy.
The fact that I made it to where I made it, when I look at where I came, I think is a message to the world and it's also a message to other young people who come from diverse and underprivileged backgrounds, that where they come from does not necessarily have to define where they are going.
Those of us who experience racism cannot, and should not, internalize it, despite the impact that it can have on our everyday lives. We must face it down, every time, no matter whom it's directed towards.
The more we elevate people's lives - the more we treat people with dignity and respect and honor their rights and freedoms - the more we discourageand even preventterrorism.
It is unconscionable for Russia to force Ukrainian citizens into Russia, and put them in what will basically be concentration and prisoner camps.
In so many of our communities and countries, racism is endemic. It's built in, like a rot in a frame.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.
The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
When it comes to climate change, I think that success at home is directly tied to our ability to lead effectively abroad.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
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