I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.