I'm not an austere person.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

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

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.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.