"We owe it to them to have access to the vaccine."
"It is startling when you think about it: 50 political appointees, Presidential appointees. This has accumulated over a long time."
"We had the technological ability. Why didn't we have it in place to warn us that this was happening?"
"the time has passed."
"That is a great question."
"So what happened was that this brilliant idea of ours did not seem so brilliant to the generic drug industry which did not want the patent life extended."
"It was a small step for mankind but a large step for Congress."
"I am really grateful that this Senate Committee is the first to hold a hearing on our report."
"the bottom-line conclusion of this report is that we are better defended than we were in 2001 after the anthrax attacks, but really the State of our biodefense is inadequate, and we are unprepared for..."
"we are asking the Vice President to direct the National Security Council to review all strategic biodefense documents."
"So I am going to give a legislator's response and then yield to the former Cabinet member."