To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.