You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

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.

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.

Books are sacred wisdom.

Raising d'être(reason for being)

I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.

This shall hence become my music.

We lead in exporting jobs.

Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.

There are currently no symptoms and I'm committed to continuing to take the best care of my body as possible.