The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

Well the Global Fund, because of how well it's worked on not only AIDS, but also malaria and tuberculosis, I'd say it's well accepted. I mean, it's not politically controversial that this is a great humanitarian effort. But budgets are very very tight.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.