People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.

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

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

Equity is the only acceptable goal

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

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