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The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience.