Jim Yong Kim

Hope is a moral choice.

What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.

Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.