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

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.

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

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.

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.

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.