I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the professor in the campus in a Bangladesh situation. They all will be stopped at the gate. You have no business in the university!

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.

...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

It's very difficult when you have learned something a certain way. Not only your mind absorbs it; your eyes also are trained to see in a certain way because eyes are only as good as you've been trained to see.

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.