It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.

Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of poor has declined by 24 percent in those 15 years [1990-2005].

The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

What is really nice about the Health Impact Fund is that it is a win-win, something that without much cost to anyone makes a lot of people better off.

Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.

Death is harder on those who are left behind.

Cowards only find courage in the number of their likeness, citing their lofty strongholds as havens for their impunity.

Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.

The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.

The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.

Only when Spirit and Science are reunited will we be afforded the means to a better world.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

On Sanjay and Craig, Ive had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.