Argument Quote by Claire Fox

There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion…

— Anne Applebaum

As an Asst. Secretary of State, I often urged authoritarian governments around the world not to use emergency powers to defy their legislatures, courts,…

— Tom Malinowski

The unhoused crisis in our country is a public health emergency, and a moral and policy failure at every level of our government.

— Cori Bush

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

— Billy Corgan

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

COVID-19 is a national crisis, and we need a national response to address it.

— Sara Gideon

We are more capable of turning around our global health crisis than we think.

— Kris Carr

“We need a 21st-century international public health movement. Unless this challenge finds its way to the top of the international public health agenda, this…

— Linda Marsa

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing…

— L. Neil Smith

We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere.

— Tedros Adhanom

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful…

— Susan Sontag

We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for government intervention,…

— Calvin Coolidge