We are not at war (except with our own demons).

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.