Political Quotes

“I just left a meeting, a stunningly important meeting where every one of the guests were prominent, but the two I want to refer to briefly are Dr. Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Fauci, head of one of the health institutes at the National Institutes of Health, Infectious Diseases, among other things. What they told us was very frightening. As we speak, there are three confirmed cases of babies born in the United States with the Zika virus. Of course, they are all very sick. The life expectancy is not very long. They said in unison how vitally important it is and has been for months to get them some money so they can do the research needed to stop the spread of this virus. They have borrowed money from malaria research, TB research--all terribly difficult problems we are having in the world and the United States--to take care of the immediate funding for research on Zika. They have taken huge amounts of money--more than half a billion dollars--out of the Ebola fund, which is still a very serious problem. There are active cases as we speak. This is not an effort we can just walk away from. This money has been needed for a long time, and it is sad that the Presidential request of $1.9 billion has been opposed. The senior Senator from Florida was at the meeting today talking about how every day there are new cases in Florida. Yesterday there were five new ones.…”