“When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.”

What great changes have not been ambitious?

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?

When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

One life is worth no more or less than any other.

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.

That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.