I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.