Famous Quotes & Sayings

Azealia Banks

Why does the UN need to raise money for ebola? Can't the gov just print the damn dollars themselves and get this done already.

Craig Ferguson

It is a great day for the great state of Texas. The last person being tested for Ebola has come back clean. So Texas is now Ebola free. This was a big week for them. They're now free of Ebola - and Democrats.

Aaron Klein

Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

Conan O'Brien

Among the top Google searches of 2014 were Ebola and the movie 'Frozen.' One leaves you with something highly infectious that's impossible to get out of your system. The other is Ebola.

Conan O'Brien

Time magazine announced its person of the year. It's health workers who treat Ebola. That's a person of the year. Time magazine told the health workers, 'No need to pick up your award, we'll mail it to you.'

David Letterman

Pepsi has a new Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. No, we don't have an Ebola vaccine, but we do have the Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists.

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.

Bob Geldof

It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe,

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola,

Glenn Beck

Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates.

Phil Gingrey

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

Peter Piot

Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola

Peter Piot

I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.

Peter Piot

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy

Paul Farmer

Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are followed, the case fatality rate for Ebola may be lower than 20 percent.

Paul Allen

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

Margaret Chan

...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months

Keiji Fukuda

People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.

Miles O'Brien

It borders on irresponsibility when people get on television and start talking that way when they should know better. They should do their homework, and they should report in a responsible manner. Unfortunately, it's a very competitive business, the business we're in, and there is a perception that by hyping up this threat, you draw people's attention.

Theodore Roosevelt

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

Henry A. Kissinger

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Henry A. Kissinger

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

Richard Preston

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

Trevor Noah

I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.

Sara Gruen

Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?

Laurie Garrett

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.