I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue.

If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.

Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.

We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.