We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

Activism has been very productive in our society.