Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.