Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.

The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.

Leadership is something which other people have to recognize. You cannot demand that I am a leader.

To ensure food security for all, we should be clear about the definition of the problem, the precise index of measuring impact and the road map to achieve the goal.

I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.

My mother has battled breast cancer three times.

ACT UP was trying to explain to Americans that AIDS could affect all of us: that health care that ended once your disease was expensive could affect more than gay men with HIV or AIDS. We were trying to tell them about the future - a future they didn't yet see and would be forced to accept if they failed to act.

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.