Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

I mow my own lawn.

I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.

I've been to Reagan National Airport. I tell people it was named after me.

John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I'm sorry, it's got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts - she's grossly unqualified.

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.

You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Patience is the best medicine.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.