I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.

Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.

Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.