When I was 14, I tried to stab someone.

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.

I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

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

People are worried about if somebody's going to say that I'm Islamophobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war. That's why I asked congress, go ahead and declare the war .