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The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, it's going to be a while before that can happen. But we can immunise every kid on earth, and we can prevent these diseases. It's only a matter of political will, a little bit of money and some systems to do it.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.

Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

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.