"the decision to get vaccinated is one place where the data could not be more clear: all three of the FDA-approved vaccines are extremely safe and extremely effective."
"It is based on your duty to your family and your community, and ultimately your country and all humanity."
"This is not only an issue for young kids. Also, it is an issue in utero, because there is lots of evidence that it is very bad for the mother and the child to get COVID."
"We have been very active in overseeing that production effort and also making sure that when the first doses were available they were equitably distributed."
"there is a scientific question of what is best for me, all right? And a second question that has very little to do with science, which is what is my duty to the rest of humanity, and this is crucial."
"I would like to speak a little bit about vaccine hesitancy among parents of young children."
"I will just leave it up to God."
"As one of two Ph.D. scientists in Congress, I always look to the research and data when making decisions."
"one of the things that we have attempted to do in Congress to make a more competitive operation is to have data portability standards and interoperability standards."
"I am very grateful for that."
"It strikes me that there is a mistake that's often made on the other side of the aisle, to mistake speaking falsehoods rapidly for intelligence and truth."