The pleasures of the IMAGINATION are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by POOR people who cannot afford the REAL THING.

There are no automatic links between poverty and TERRORISM. Among MILLIONS of poor PEOPLE in the world, only a few TURN to terrorism.

Many people of my generation grew up in developed countries thinking that the world was DIVIDED into two PARTS and that there was a WALL round the developed world. They THOUGHT that poor people had no relevance to us. What happened on September 11 was that anybody who thought there was a wall now KNOWS that there is no wall.

The fact that RICH people GET free STUFF and poor people have to PAY, it's backwards.

I MET the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate CONSERVATISM, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for POOR people.

Being Christian TOWARDS poor PEOPLE means trying to improve their lives and give them BACK some SELF-RESPECT.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the REST of the POPULATION. If they are segregated, it will be a POOR plan for poor people.

The World Bank and others have been converted to conditional CASH transfers (CCT). These PROVIDE poor people with cash on condition they send their CHILDREN to SCHOOL and for medical treatment.

In CANADA, we just have RICH and POOR, but we don't CONSTANTLY remind poor PEOPLE about it.

Ebola has changed everything in West AFRICA. We cannot sit BACK and SAY, 'Oh, those poor people.' We must think outside the box and find WAYS to help.

I have got immense love from the POOR people. What more do I NEED? I don't think of death and ailment. Life is in the HANDS of GOD.

You MUST do as your PEOPLE do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ASK me, 'Why don't you FIND a personal coach or a PRIVATE car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional APPROACHES to POVERTY alleviation. EVEN those approaches focused on jobs OFTEN equip poor people with skills for which there is little MARKET demand.

The more TIME I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to POOR PEOPLE, I REALIZED what they want more than anything is a good JOB.