Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, youll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a moral value – affordable health care is a moral value etc., – then youll appeal to red-state voters. – Eric Liu
This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace. – Margaret Chan
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Id be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. – Lenny Bruce