In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

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

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.