Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

Bureaucratic systems are not set up to be what we refer to as human service organizations. They were established to collect revenue and maintain law and order and they used a law and order approach in providing family planning services.

A focus on people's health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but the realities of program implementation in third world countries has often shown that the health and well-being of individuals is not a priority.

We are trying to discover where this approach could have the greatest possibility of large-scale impact. We have to choose wisely and see where there is greatest interest and need.