Without the green revolution, we'll never be able to create our own resources and decrease poverty. Without a green revolution, we'll never really control our own environment.

African aid is never, never going to end food insecurity.

If a country were to build sufficient roads and railways over two to three years, it would solve the problem for the next 20 years.

Poverty is the parent of revolution

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.