“At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific,...” — Roberto Azevedo Quote

“At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery - and you can't miss the target. If you miss the target, you kill the patient. It's as simple as that.”

“One thinks that one is winning when we slap tariffs or introduce barriers to imports from another country, and we think we win. But you lose when you export because the other countries are going to raise tariffs as well. They're going to introduce barriers as well. So you win with one hand and you lose with the other.”

“I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.”

“The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.”

“Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.”