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

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.

Fai: *punches Kurogane* That was payback, Kuro-sama!Kurogane: *grins* You're gonna get punched out, you creep!

You deserve a full time play

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

The Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level.

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Australians have defied global economic gravity.