Thank you for your interest in the Clinton Foundation.

During my years as President, the countries of the world increasingly worked together as partners for economic gain and to solve national and international problems -- a trend that people commonly call "globalization." This interdependence has done much good. In recent decades, more human beings have been lifted out of poverty than at any other period in history. For the first time, more than half the world's people live under governments of their own choosing. Developing countries that have followed the path of open trade and investment have prospered far more than those that have closed their borders. Information and technology have spread across the globe with astonishing speed, transforming the way we work, live and interact with each other.

But the breaking of so many barriers also produces many paradoxes and new challenges. One half of the world's population still lives on less than $2 a day; one billion on less than half that. More than a billion people go to bed hungry every night. In the midst of miraculous medical breakthroughs, up to six million people who need treatment for AIDS are not getting it. Spectacular industrial expansion, while growing a global middle class, produces global warming and air, land and water pollution. A sneeze in one place can produce an outbreak of illness halfway around the world. And, as we saw on September 11th, people who wish to sow terror take advantage of easy travel and open borders to accomplish their destructive goals.

In building a bridge to the 21st century, my Administration sought to move America and the world along the path of positive interdependence. Through the Clinton Foundation, I am continuing to advance that goal -- by helping men, women, and children in developing countries access life-saving AIDS treatment; through the economic empowerment of poor people, in the U.S. and abroad; by promoting citizen service; and through efforts to encourage people in conflict to value our common humanity above any differences that divide us. You can find out more about each of these areas right here on this web site.

Since we now live in a world without walls, where borders don't stop much -- good or bad -- our security, prosperity, and happiness depend on spreading the benefits and reducing the burdens of our global society. We all do better when we help each other. These values and beliefs have guided me in building the Clinton Presidential Center and my Foundation. I remain committed to working with others to move the world from an unstable interdependence toward an integrated global economy of shared responsibilities, shared opportunities and shared values. I consider it my obligation as a citizen and a way to repay the people of our great country for putting their confidence in me.

Sincerely,