In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.