Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Rick Bright

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American public servant Rick Bright.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Rick Arthur Bright is an American immunologist, vaccine researcher, and public health official. He was the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) from 2016 to 2020. In May 2020, he filed a whistleblower complaint, alleging that the Trump administration ignored his early warnings about the COVID-19 pandemic and illegally retaliated against him by ousting him from his role and demoting him to a position at the National Institutes of Health. On October 6, 2020, Bright resigned from the government. On November 9 he was named a member of President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus advisory board.

American - Public Servant | Born: June 7, 1966

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Well, I have been trained my entire life to recognize these outbreaks and recognize viruses. I have a Ph.D. in virology.

Rick Bright

Specifically, and contrary to misguided directives, I limited the broad use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, promoted by the Administration as a panacea, but which clearly lack scientific merit.

Rick Bright

I am not disgruntled. I am frustrated at a lack of leadership. I am frustrated at a lack of urgency to get a head start on developing lifesaving tools for Americans. I'm frustrated at our inability to be heard as scientists. Those things frustrate me.

Rick Bright

While I am prepared to look at all options and to think 'outside the box' for effective treatments, I rightly resisted efforts to provide an unproven drug on demand to the American public.

Rick Bright

Containment doesn't work. Containment does buy time. It could slow. It very well could slow the spread. But while you're slowing the spread, you better be doing something in parallel to be prepared for when that virus breaks out.

Rick Bright

We have offshored a lot of our industry for critical supplies, critical health care supplies, and critical medicines to save money.

Rick Bright

I have spent my entire career in vaccine development, in the government with CDC and BARDA and also in the biotechnology industry.

Rick Bright

If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities. Without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history.

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My professional background has prepared me for a moment like this - to confront and defeat a deadly virus that threatens Americans and people around the globe.

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I am very grateful for the bipartisan support from Congress and their confidence in my leadership of BARDA as reflected in the generous appropriation to BARDA in the CARES 3 Act.

Rick Bright

Rushing blindly towards unproven drugs can be disastrous and result in countless more deaths.

Rick Bright

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Rick Bright

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