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.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

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

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.