Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Rules broken today become norms tomorrow.