We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.

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 think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

What has happened over the years is that scientists have now developed AIDS therapeutic capabilities, as well as prevention, and we've linked prevention and treatment in a way that if you fast-forward 30 years form '88 to now, we can say without hyperbole that we have the tools, if implemented the way they could be implemented, to theoretically, essentially end the epidemic as we know it now.

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