Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'

Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box.

The reduction of the death rate is the principal statistical expression and index of human social progress.

I'm for increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control.

Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal.

We need to provide all areas of the country with access to high-quality medical care.

Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right.

Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.

By the way, the V.A. has some great doctors. I've been told by some of the veterans the doctors are great when you can get to see them in many cases.

The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.

Over and over, nature shows that it's a really tough adversary. That's why it's important that we invest in laboratories, disease detectives, research, mosquito control, the public health system around the world to find, stop, track, prevent health threats.

Health is both the foundation of my academic and professional careers and a personal passion. I know first-hand the important role health security plays in protecting lives and preventing the spread of disease.

In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.

Every single one of us deserves access to quality, affordable health care.

Accurate diagnostics are key to enabling successful public health measures.

We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.

In the United States, I feel like polio doesn't exist, but it very much does. I've been to many countries and saw how lucky we are that we can go straight to the doctor or the ER in the U.S. I would love for moms in other countries to not experience my fears.

I think Tom Frieden, the CDC director, is a good man, is a good doctor and, I think, basically has done a good job.

By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.