The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.

Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of poor has declined by 24 percent in those 15 years [1990-2005].

What is really nice about the Health Impact Fund is that it is a win-win, something that without much cost to anyone makes a lot of people better off.

Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.

It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate our reform efforts in order to really to achieve reforms, one by one.

If only people valued people and not money…. I've been on a journey of truth and realization. I wonder how many lessons I got to learn.

I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.

I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.

I would love to play the President. Give me the suit, give me the power, give me the oval office. That would be really fun.

Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.