Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come as a Senator, but actually I come wearing two different hats right now--two more hats aside from being a Senator. One of them is a teacher. I still teach at the LSU Medical School and have for the last 30 years, so I decided to do a presentation on something wearing my next hat. In my life as a physician, I have done much work in public health and have learned, by the way, that if you head off illness early, you save a lot of money. You save a lot of money after that. I call it the balloon theory. If you put a balloon up to helium and you squeeze the nozzle, it inflates quickly, but if you pull it off the nozzle, it remains deflated. Right now, we have something at risk with Zika that will be like that helium balloon--inflating rapidly unless we do that initial thing that pulls the balloon off the helium so that it works. I am a teacher, so I decided to do something different. If anybody in the audience so chooses, they can put their phone and their QR code reader up to the television or the computer monitor and they can scan this barcode, and they will see the slides we are about to go over. So if you are watching at home and you wish to follow, then you can download these slides, and if you think them important, you can forward these slides to another person. Again, that is my effort as a teacher to try to speak about the spread of Zika. This is Jose Wesley, born to a Brazilian mother who contracted Zika probably in her first 3 months of pregnancy.…”