Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, Sandton Convention Centre, 2 April 2007
… from the scourge of poverty. The theme that informs the work of this conference, 'fighting corruption and … poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Specifically, in his 'Leviathan,' he wrote that: "because the basic condition … against every one; in which case every one is governed by his own reason; and there is nothing he can make use of, that …