Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Your child can die from chickenpox.

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.

It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power.

The Bible is God’s gift to us. It came from God, and it points us to God.

The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

I never met a man I could marry.

It's tough for those celebrity couples. It's really hard. My wife wasn't in the limelight, which made it easier... the key is to keep it happy, light, and fun.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.

I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.