Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

I guess some of the most delightful moments of my teenage years were when I was trying not just to educate myself but trying to educate others. And I could see how the lives of children could be transformed in that.

I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or another, but basically has had a great deal of interest in humanitarian causes both within the country and abroad. Even when they criticize the mechanism to which it flows.

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.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.