But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we'd invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I've probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'