With economic opportunity, sometimes it's making sure that if they're not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.

It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.

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.

One life is worth no more or less than any other

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?'

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.