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.

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.

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

It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate our reform efforts in order to really to achieve reforms, one by one.

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

We were created from time

May we never go to hell, but always be on our way!

That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

I dont plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

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