But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

In every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

When you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you’re hungry, we’ll feed you. If you’re homeless, we’ll house you. If you’re too poor to be sick, we’ll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Short cuts make long delays.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.