Affordability is critical so that patients have access to medicines. At the same time, it's also important that we have the kind of incentives that allow us to do the kinds of studies that we need to do to go after these diseases like Alzheimer's.

I think that size is not the key to innovation. Scale doesn't confirm an innovation advantage.

My job is to make sure that 10 and 15 years from now, people aren't going to say, 'Oh, do you remember Merck?'

Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.

If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.