The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

I defendNot my voice, but my silence

When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton?

We are going to save our Second Amendment.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.