It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president

The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

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.

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.

Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.

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