Melinda gates

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained......

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

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.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were...

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.