If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.

The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

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.

The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.

The time for change is now.

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