As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.
Joycelyn EldersAs long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.
Joycelyn EldersCondoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
Joycelyn EldersGuns are far too accessible and too readily available. There are over 200 million guns in our society - and that's just the legal ones, the ones we know about. Every ten seconds, another gun is produced. And every fourteen minutes, some person in America dies from gun-inflicted action.
Joycelyn Elders