It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

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.

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

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

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

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