The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.

The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

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