Fauci on members of Congress getting the vaccine:
...(b)ecause it really is a security issue. I mean, obviously, you want to make sure that it's equitably distributed according to the suggestions and the recommendations of the advisory committees and the CDC. But you really have to understand, you want to keep the government intact. And that's the reason why you do vaccinate, in a priority setting, the people who are the leaders of the country. In the sense of keeping the country running, it's very much similar to essential workers in my mind."
Fauci on the democrats success of Operation Warp Speed
Operation Warp Speed will go down historically as a highly successful endeavor, which allowed us to do things with regard to the timing of it and the effectiveness of it in a way that a few years ago people never would have imagined ...," he said. "It was a combination, of the fundamental basic science that was done right here at the NIH [National Institutes of Health], as well as places that were funded by the NIH and by the Department of Defense and other government agencies. That, plus the creative initiative of Operation Warp Speed, made this possible.
A lot of credit goes to the administration, particularly to [Health and Human Services] Secretary Alex Azar, as well as the Department of Defense, starting off with Secretary Mark Esper and his colleagues at DOD."