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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

Those memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound understanding of the challenges of economic development - an understanding which will make my tenure as Peace Corps director, I hope, a very special one.

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

The Western world is having an identity crisis.

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

I love being in the world of the unknown.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.