I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

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

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

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

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.