The bottom line is, if you're pregnant, don't travel to an area where Zika is spreading.

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.

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

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

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

I can't make you love me, if you don't.

Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.

The latter end of joy is woe.

Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.

I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear.

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.