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Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.

I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level.

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it's a question of priority. I feel it's one of the most important areas of concern ecologically, because the petrochemical giants - DuPont, Monsanto - make huge money by poisoning us.

I make money, and I don't need money.

I quickly discovered that scientists go where the funding is, so I knew I had to start a research foundation. If you don't raise money and provide research grants, you'll never attract scientists, and if scientists aren't working on a cure, there isn't going to be a cure.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.