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

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

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

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

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

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.