Bio-terrorism is a threat.

- Anthony Fauci

The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

- Anthony Fauci

The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.

- Anthony Fauci

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

- Anthony Fauci

It's very, very difficult when you have to prepare for something that might not ever happen.

- Anthony Fauci

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

- Anthony Fauci

I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

- Anthony Fauci

I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'

- Anthony Fauci

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.

- Anthony Fauci

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

- Anthony Fauci

The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.

- Anthony Fauci

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

- Anthony Fauci

When you vaccinate someone, or when you get infected, the microbe is presenting itself to the immune system in a way that the immune system recognizes the important elements of the microbe and makes an immune response, both an antibody response and a cellular response, to ultimately contain the microbe.

- Anthony Fauci

When you think in terms of public service, I heard so much about what Mother Theresa had done in her life. And I was fortunate enough to get a chance to meet her and talk to her a lot about what motivates her and what drives her. And that, to me, is a person that really is an extraordinary role model.

- Anthony Fauci

What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that's much more accelerated than when it sees it for the first time.

- Anthony Fauci

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

- Anthony Fauci

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

- Anthony Fauci

There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola vaccine, and it is important to establish that a vaccine is safe and spurs the immune system to react in a way necessary to protect against infection.

- Anthony Fauci

The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

- Anthony Fauci

The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly, so it is easy to identify where the infected flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn't make the chicken sick, so it has been difficult to pinpoint where the infected chickens are.

- Anthony Fauci