Paul Farmer American Quotations

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.

Shuttling back and forth between what is possible and what is likely to occur is instructive and a lot of what shapes our sentiment.

Well, we've worked with our friends in Haiti to establish nothing short of a modern medical center in one of the poorest parts of that country.

Well, I don't think that the role of the pharmaceutical industry is any different from that of other transnational corporations.

Even die-hard fans of the market acknowledge that TB care should be free. Why? Because it's an airborne disease and treatment equals prevention.

At the same time, the fact the world's poor are calling upon us to help is a marker, in my view, of the limitless potential of human solidarity.

It was apparent from the early 80s that in order to do something lasting and significant in Haiti we would need a springboard in the States.

And I can also show you that people from all walks of life agree that someone who is sick deserves, in principle, compassion and care.