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Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.