In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.