30 Quotes by William Burns

I think you'll see the implementation very shortly, and I think it will be a very firm implementation of the Syrian Accountability Act and the intent behind it,

Our capacity is well in excess of all government orders that we have received to date. We stand ready. There should be no holding back.

We have taken this unique step, which is unlike any initiative undertaken by Roche, to help ensure that the right medicines in the right formulation are available locally. We want to use the knowledge we have developed to help strengthen local manufacturing capability and hope to help as many manufacturers as possible in these hardest hit countries by sharing our knowledge, so that they can learn and benefit from our technology.

We have both decided the second time around is much better,

We have not identified anyone who could significantly speed up the agreed delivery timelines for the first half of 2006, but we have been able to identify partners to insure against breakdowns in supply and partners to broaden geographic coverage.

This needs two players at the table. We have a capacity well in excess of total government orders placed to date ...There should be no holding back in the belief that we do not have sufficient supply.

The rate at which this capacity is utilized will depend in large part on the future order flow from governments around the world. We are now ahead of demand in meeting the manufacturing challenge.

We believe that with these forward-looking actions we are well placed in our collaboration with world governments on their plans to manage a potential health crisis.

This will be an emerging area of strength for Roche,