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.

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

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.

Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.

Every circumstance is an opportunity to re-define your confident level.

You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

I think the important thing is to realize that the establishment of a democracy is sometimes a messy thing and it takes time. Yeah, we've been at it 240 years.

Rip Van Winkle, who said, Don't make the bed; I'm just going to the bathroom. Never got a dinner!

I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.

As long as you live, learn how to live.