Quotes By Paul Farmer

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.