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

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

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.