If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.