Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

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

If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I'm counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don't have access to the contraceptives they need?