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

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

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

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.

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

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.

With Saturday Night Live you're looking for any hook, any way to stay on the show.

President Reagan is a lot like E.T. He's cute, he's lovable, and he knows nothing about how Americans live.

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience.

I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish.