If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make a bigger impact on that than any other factor - not these various regulations [such as] you have to have one child or that. It turns out that none of these are effective.

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

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

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think the importance of it has to be shaken into people's understanding and determination.