Comment Quote by Paul Farmer

If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of…

— Paul Farmer

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

— Paul Farmer

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi…

— Paul Farmer

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

— Paul Farmer

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

— Paul Farmer

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not…

— Paul Farmer

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid…

— Paul Farmer

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

— Paul Farmer

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

— Paul Farmer

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when…

— Paul Farmer

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

— Paul Farmer

I'm not an austere person.

— Paul Farmer