That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

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

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

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

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