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

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

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.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

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