Our bodies and minds don't naturally tend to provide health care. We have to make concrete choices, and make them together as a political society, in order to succeed in providing health care.

The health care system will soon be placed in a very difficult situation where they have to make a choice between who to provide care to and who to simply say, 'sorry, we can’t do anything for you'.

Our health care policy must honor all human life and dignity from conception to natural death, as well as defend the sincerely-held moral and religious beliefs of those who have any role in the health care system.

There is no room for improvisation; a team of people with the right expertise in their fields is essential.

Health is a fundamental right that the State must guarantee. Physical and mental health will be the first priority in the government. We will establish a universal, unified, free, decentralized and participatory health system.

Without hard work, a great strategy remains a dream.

Without a great strategy, hard work becomes a nightmare.

It’s imperative we have a system that’s accessible for every single American, that’s affordable for every single American, that incentivizes and provides the highest quality health care that the world knows, and provides choices to patients so they are the ones selecting who is treating them, when, where, and the like.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

We always have to be serious about public health in a global sense and surveillance for "the next one", because we don't know where it will emerge.

The principle that adequate health care should be provided for all, regardless of ability to pay, must be the foundation of any arrangements for financing the Health Service.

All it requires is hard work and good people to implement the strategy.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

a need for a holistic approach to tackling the pandemic as opposed to a hopeless approach with drugs being seen as a do-or-die solution

[My position] is not designed to win votes. It is designed to address itself to what I think is a problem of crisis proportions. I believe that when you are facing that kind of emergency, you have to be willing to prescribe some pretty tough action. I think the American people are ready for some straight answers. . . When you are confronted with a genuine emergency, then I think you have to look at the interest of the country first.