Michael Leavitt Quotations

We believe that ... federal resources should be targeted to meeting the needs of those harmed by Hurricane Katrina,

Three times in this century we have experienced pandemic influenza and they will come again. We must be ready,

We are here today to work on a common problem, a problem that I believe that if we work on together, we can make progress,

I think it's evident it's in the thousands.

Our preparations are not yet complete nor are they adequate,

We have learned in the past weeks that bad things can happen very fast.

With or without Oprah, it will still need to be a good show. But her endorsement is a very big deal.

There is no reason for anyone to delay or go without their annual flu shot,

We could be battling 5,000 different fronts at the same moment,

Every senior will be able to get an affordable plan that will provide peace of mind.

is the capacity for every American to have a vaccine in the case of a pandemic, no matter what the virus is.

The burning question is, will there be a human influenza pandemic. On behalf of the WHO, I can tell you that there will be. The only question is the virulence and rapidity of transmission from human to human.

A major part of our domestic plan needs to be domestic capacity, because in a pandemic, the emergency will be managed across the globe, ... Anyone with a supply produced in their country will want to keep it there.

For all of us, the best defense is containment. To find it and find it soon and then work as an international community to contain it,

The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable, ... because sometimes the unthinkable happens.

It's clear to me that this has been sickeningly difficult and profoundly tragic,

The world looks to Broadway for the very best in musical theatre, and we want Elephant Eye to be considered a home for adventurous people who share our passion for creating it.

The world is obviously unprepared or inadequately prepared for the potential of a pandemic,

Their economies, already poor and struggling to recover from the recession, will be unable to support the regular matching payments needed to provide health care to the tens of thousands who will need it over the coming months,

The federal government will ensure that Texas will be reimbursed,

By the time we get to May, people will have experience with this and they'll have a much deeper understanding and those polls will have changed.

This is much more than a public health issue and it's not just an issue for those who have poultry flocks. People have to eat and therefore businesses need to ask themselves the question - how would we continue to operate, to serve our customers and the public in general, if 40% of our workforce couldn't go to work for two to four weeks. Any community that fails to prepare with the expectation that the federal government will at the last moment be able to come to the rescue will be tragically wrong.

All of the infectious diseases that occur when people are in large congregations of people can spread,

The market will become simplified because consumers want that.