The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.

You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.