"It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world."
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"You can't save kids just with vaccines."
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"If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else."
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"Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men."
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"If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just not going to make the progress that you want to make. But if you put her at the centre, you can change a lot for that family, and it has ripple effects through the economy."
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"When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream."
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"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."
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"All lives have an equal value."
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"I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual."
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"Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world."
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"I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere."
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"Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve."
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"Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most."
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"In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: "Here I am.""
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"I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value."
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"Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved."
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"If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students."
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"Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them."
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"It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams."
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"Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And it’s not a onetime thing; it’s an iterative process."
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