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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.

This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our society, from private prisons to Fox News. What I'm arguing is that, in fact, what we've been told is a lie.

Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity.

The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at the beginning of a renaissance of trust.

The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.

We can't change minds without knowing what's in them.

Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.