If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school.

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.

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

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

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