When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

I was born on the cusp of technology.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

I do favor guest workers, H1B visas and student visas.

I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you're automatically different.