I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.
Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.
If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.
Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.
There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.
If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.