Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

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.

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

Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.