If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

A culture exists within the [Ted] Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.