"Terrorist groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are devastating the Middle East, setting new horrific standards for inhumanity and brutality, and have specifically endorsed--ISIL has specifically endorsed--the use of biological weapons and threatened to use them against the Ame..."
"Mr. Chairman, I do want to mention--it is not directly responsive, but it is related--that it happens that Senator Ayotte and Senator Booker have introduced a bill for the Department of Homeland Secur..."
"And we were talking about the problem that there were not medical--pharmaceutical countermeasures and how do we create a market incentive where there is no natural market incentive for pharmaceutical ..."
"So, to a certain extent, probably the wrong way to describe it, we backed into the recommendation that the Vice President be the leader of this effort."
"I hope that some of you on the Committee and the Committee itself will think about taking whatever parts of this report seem sensible and necessary to you and become leaders in the Senate and Congress..."
"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."
"The military is way ahead, in our opinion, of what the Department of Homeland Security has in the BioWatch program."
"Well, we understand that there is a vaccine coming along, but I am actually thinking more about---yes, OK. So the vaccine is coming along, but it has not been approved yet. And the sooner the better."
"Our judgment is that it is an old system, it is using old technology, and, frankly, it is not up to the challenge."
"I think that Vice President Biden might be challenged and intrigued by this possibility and want to see if in his last year in office he can bring this together to work better."
"There is no one global cop on the beat."