231 Quotes by Melinda Gates

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

So I made a conscious choice that when our daughter turned one, I would get back into those interests, those issues, and start learning them.

People are respectful when we're out with the children on a normal evening, and it couldn't be a better place to live for those reasons.