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

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

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

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

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

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