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

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.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

I'm not an austere person.