Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.
I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.
I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
Certainly I’ll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I’ve gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, ‘Yes, my country is doing well,’ but you think about the world at large.
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.
If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.
Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child’s death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you’ll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.
If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.
In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, ‘Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.’
If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now. We can and should pray for America as a whole, but remember that when God sets out to change a nation, He begins by changing people. It starts with individuals.
In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.
I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I’m just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.