Surgeon general's job is to protect, promote and advance the health, safety and security of the nation.

If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.

Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss.

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

I used to be a real doctor. Now I just play one on TV.

The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.

Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation.

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless.

Life was still sprouting in him—over the sharp rocks and right on the nose of a cliff, he was yet far from death.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.

When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.