“There's never been a pandemic which hasn't exploited a change in the w...” — Norman Swan Quote

“There's never been a pandemic which hasn't exploited a change in the way we live - politics, social structure, technological change, warfare, it's always something that we humans have done or are doing that's tilled the soil for the pandemic and the solution to it is usually social, behavioural and political.”

“I was going to be a surgeon at one point, and I remember being taught that the surgical heroes aren't the ones that can staunch the bleeding; what you want is the surgeon that doesn't cause any bleeding in the first place.”

“Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.”

“It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.”

“There is a lot of talent in our country that needs to be exploited.”