I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.

The level of outbreak is beyond anything we’ve seen - or even imagined.

I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.

Where you live in the United States shouldn't determine how long and how healthy you live - but it does, far more than it should.

Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.

It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.

Unfortunately, it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of Ebola.

The United States has made remarkable progress in reducing both teen pregnancy and racial and ethnic differences, but the reality is, too many American teens are still having babies.

Too many U.S. adults have a heart age years older than their real age, increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke. Everybody deserves to be young - or at least not old - at heart.

Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.

The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

yes. Menace and danger, That's what passion is-dangerous love-love that put you at risk, that gets a hold of you and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do. It's the only love worth having..

My happy place, huh? Well, yeah, I guess that's what music is for me.

The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.

I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

Rihanna and makeup gets me into LaLa Land.

Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.