The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

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

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?