The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.