“In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United ...” — Jim Yong Kim Quote

“In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.”

“I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.”

“The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.”

“If you look at the developments in the international scene over the past many years, we haven't been able to resolve many problems and many crises, because we have approached them from a zero-sum perspective. My gain has always been defined as somebody else's loss, and through that, we never resolve problems.”

“I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.”

“Crises are inherent to market economies, but managing them is the key to political success, and the media plays a vital role in getting the policy message across.”