Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike.
At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful launch and a highly successful first year.
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.
Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.
If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.
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.
Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.
I had a really tragic cut at the beginning of Season 2 of 'Ally McBeal.' Someone convinced me that it would be good to layer my hair. I basically looked like Ronald McDonald.
I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.
How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.
I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
