Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly.

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.

A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.

This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed.

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.