If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

Getting the word out that, yes vaccines are great, the safety data's very, very clear, including any of these specific concerns, that's very important to our foundation.

People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.