My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.