"We've got to get more funding for NIH. We can't continue to go down this road."
"That's all well and good, but we have a crisis on our hands with Alzheimer's, a real crisis."
"This is a perilous moment for NIH and, indeed, for the future of biomedical research in this country."
"I'm not going to turn this into politics. We want to be above politics. But we're going to have to deal with politics."
"I can promise you, if sequestration stays in effect next year, there's no chance that we will get close to the President's request for NIH."
"It would be huge."
"There's got to be something there to make sure that those dreams are realizable, and that funding has to be there."
"This sort of balanced approach is the only way NIH will have the resources it needs to realize the enormous scientific opportunities."
"Do you expect the same situation in future years of the initiative?"
"We are not going to savage other functions in education, health, labor, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others, which are already at minimal levels."
"This year, fiscal year 2013, NIH funding will drop in actual dollars by $1.7 billion below last year's level, almost entirely because of sequestration."