[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

The phenomenal generosity of the United States in its aid budget towards health issues is the best in the world. You can look at that broadly, you can look at it in terms of HIV, the PEPFAR money which came together in a Republican administration with bipartisan support.