David Moskowitz Quotes (14 Quotes)

The American people saw unforgettably how federal, state, and local governments failed the people of New Orleans just three weeks ago. What the American people don't realize is how they've all been short-changed for the past three years. Minorities are much more affected by kidney failure than whites. There's a dialysis boom on Indian reservations.

Just because we have to study history doesn't mean we can't try to relate it to the current time. Once you start talking about something they're already up on, it draws them in.

They got slammed. The credibility of this company has been damaged and will continue to be so for some time until they can deliver.

The squeeze is coming, ... With this number of cases and these types of awards, the stability of the company is at risk.

We believe that parents are very sensitive to safety issues for ADHD drugs and that a new warning could further add to pressure on the product.

President Bush's action, although timely, may be ill advised. For the past three years, both the CDC and the WHO have steadfastly ignored our novel anti-viral approach, which has achieved over 80 treatment success in West Nile virus encephalitis and which should be equally effective against avian influenza. If the WHO had put us in touch with clinicians in Southeast Asia treating avian influenza cases as we've asked for the past three winters, we'd already know by now.

Litigators and plaintiffs are likely to come out of the woodwork, ... The number of lawsuits filed against the company will increase dramatically in the coming months.

Merck has a precedent of announcing head count reductions and then coming back to the table and cutting even further.

The legal victory represents a significant reduction in the risk profile of the company. The company's fending off of this major threat is likely to lift sentiment for the entire large-cap pharmaceutical group through the remainder of 2005.

A negative outcome in this trial is more magnified than a positive one.

Drug companies have done a poor job managing public relations and they know this. In many cases, the individual drug companies have tried to set examples where they can. This is one area where Bristol has tried to set an example.

Start settling the cases. I think taking this to the courtroom could be damaging. Settlement keeps the issue out of the courtroom and out of the media and it puts a lid on potential damages.

As potential patients, we would want these companies to make incremental improvements. Without it, we would end up only with first-in-class products that are not as good as they could be.

New management might decide to make that choice, to reinvest some of the cash from the dividend back into the company, ... meaningful growth until the end of the decade or later.