Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Roe for putting on this opportunity for us to address the American people directly and reassure them that this Operation Warp Speed is truly an amazing accomplishment for our country. Mr. Speaker, if you were born after 1969 you didn't get a chance to celebrate with us on the original moonshot, those heady days of the Apollo landing and all the run-up science to get that done. This is America's new moonshot. This is an amazing program. By leveraging the private sector and all parts of the private sector, as well as all of the agencies and all of government effort, we are making progress on medical science at a rate that has literally never been seen before. Every living Nobel Prize laureate with a Nobel Prize in medicine is cooperating with the government and rushing forward. The science on all these areas is really making a difference and making a difference very quickly. The administration put $10 billion with a B--bravo--in supplemental funding into the Operation Warp Speed and separately another $1.5 billion into developing Shark Tank testing. So we are not only working on vaccines, we are working on testing for the virus, we are working on prevention of the virus, and we are working on therapeutics, that is medicines that are true antivirals. We already have new protocols so that we are improving the treatment. The mortality rate for this disease has plummeted.…”