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

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

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.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.