I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

...there was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

I primarily buy art to show it off.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.