
An Interview with Gareth Evans, Former Foreign Minister of Australia
“[UN conventions] do reflect genuinely universal values, and it’s time we recognize that, and we have to in order to give them salience. It’s not just yours versus ours.”
“[UN conventions] do reflect genuinely universal values, and it’s time we recognize that, and we have to in order to give them salience. It’s not just yours versus ours.”
“We’ll have a stronger democracy if everyone has their voice heard and everyone has confidence in a voting system.”
“It’s crazy how relevant the skill of active listening was from being a Lyft driver to being a Product Manager at Google to being a suicide hotline counselor. I would just tout that skill as one of the most incredible skills you can learn.”
“Many of them lose status and become subject to deportation or go into the underground and not have the prospects they currently have in the U.S.”
“My main concern is that people talk about the Catalans and Catalonia as if they were homogeneous.”
“So I prefer not to read the news because I think news in general gives you a very biased viewpoint of what is most important in the world.”
“Our mission is to make the world mentally resilient, it isn’t to cure depression—it isn’t to cure a mental illness. We’re out there to make sure that nobody is completely alone.”
“Everything about [Obama’s] campaign from beginning to end—the culture, the historic nature of it—was secondary; it was just an unbelievable team effort, and he was an extraordinary candidate.”