Quotes from Anthony Fauci

There's always going to be the need for new medications, better medications.

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.

Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.

Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It's a very, very low risk - a very, very low risk.

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.

Human nature is weak.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored.

I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

It's very, very difficult when you have to prepare for something that might not ever happen.

I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

It's extremely likely that the people who have never been exposed to a human who has leprosy, it's very likely they got leprosy from exposure to an armadillo.

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.