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
… we all share, the objective of liberating billions of human beings from the scourge of poverty. The theme that … – and the notion that in a so-called 'state of nature,' human society, not governed by a benevolent dictator, renders all human life "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." …