A common story that we heard was that when it comes to vaccines, we think the American vaccines are the best and you are giving them to us.

They have, very frankly, made no effort to hide the fact that these vaccines come with strings attached.

We ought to revisit some of those tax agreements that, I guess, went away in the 1990s.

We talked in those nations about the effect of a pandemic, but we also heard the gratitude of these nations for U.S. vaccine diplomacy in the region.

Donating 10 million vaccines to a country that does not have health care infrastructure to distribute them... is that a major factor in how this is being decided?

I think everyone is going to get a partial economic divorce from China.

It strikes me that if we had some of these supply chains, obviously, in the United States, preferably, but if not in the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, it would have a dual purpose.

the interim Government of President Guaido is a legitimate government and we are trying to strengthen both the leverage and credibility of the pro-democracy movement in Venezuela.

The official U.S. policy remains that that is the legitimate government in Venezuela.

I think we are entering an era that I think there is going to be--the best way to say it is biomedical nationalism.

I think there is a broader communication issue.

The U.S. Government can do so much to facilitate that technology transfer from Pfizer and Moderna.