I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

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

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

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.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

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.