If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

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

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

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

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