The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.

The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.

What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are not caught unawares.

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

We can't have jobs created in America if China is making all of our products.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.

You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.