Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.

Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.

Our world ends and some people never understand how much we really loved them.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.

They [Democrats] are not just going up, they are accelerating on their way up.

On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt.