"I've pursued a lifetime in the research on the social determinants of health and more recently been packaging not just my research but global research on this topic in a way that I hope will influence policy."

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.”

“This was a no-brainer, ... When it came down to it, I said to myself, Hey, you can still play, you can still play at a high level and you still enjoy playing. Why not play?”

“In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.”

Source : The Sunday Telegraph, October 18, 1964.

“I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.”

“It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.”

“Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.”

“I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.”