It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do.

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.

Remember, remember the 5th of November.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

I want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Donald Trump is not softening his position on immigration.

I've learned to love my brown eyes.

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.