The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

... for fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.

I want to be so successful that one day my mom never has to buy a thing for herself again

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies.

A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.