Famous Quotes & Sayings

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

William Foege

Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.

Friedrich Schiller

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Luc Montagnier

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

Luc Montagnier

My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

P. J. O'Rourke

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

Bernie Siegel

There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.

Laurie Garrett

Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Bill Gates

At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.

Charlie Sheen

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

Donald Kennedy

So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.

Dan Burton

How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

Romano Prodi

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

Stephen Sondheim

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

Seth Berkley

The best vaccine imaginable is only valuable to the extent we get it to everyone who needs it.

Michael Specter

There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.

George Bernard Shaw

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

Jenny McCarthy

Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

David Barton

There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. … The Bible [is] right every time … and that’s why AIDS has been something they haven’t discovered a cure for or a vaccine for. … And that goes to what God says, ‘Hey you’re going to bear in your body the consequences of this homosexual behavior.’

Meryl Streep

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.