James M. Talent: “BARDA has been underfunded. It is being funded at a fraction of what it needs.”

If you don't have the countermeasures, you can have all the rest of it done--it is like an army without bullets.

We need a National intelligence strategy for dealing with the biothreat, and we don't have it.

The foundation of America's military strength is the quality and morale of the men and women who have chosen to service.

I think, in terms of communication, one of the things I always believed is that people will pay more attention if there is something they can do.