There will be water and food fights everywhere.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

A lot of young people dont think they can make a difference. Thats really what I am at Dartmouth to do. Im there to tell the young people, Look, a few committed souls can change the world.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.