The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.