“Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.”

Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.

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.

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life.

A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation’s development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.