Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.

It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.

Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.

If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it