After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of success of the Americans. And there is something that the world can learn from it and also be assisted by the United States along with Europe and the rest of the world. I really hope that this is an issue that engages the American public.

I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the world in terms of how to think about the future.

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

If jobs are important, education is important.

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?