Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.