"What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my book. It's a trust between the government and the people."

"At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people."

"There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population."

"Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people's services destroyed, they hate public health."

"Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue."

"Suicide is not a remedy."

"It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable."

"The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making."