Political Quotes

“Madam President, I am a liberal arts lawyer. I am not a doctor, and I am not a researcher. So when I get into these fields, I want to say the words I use very carefully, not to misstate what is clearly the case. But this was an amazing article, which is entitled ``Device uses microbubbles to open blood-brain barrier to treat glioblastoma in humans.'' It is the story of Northwestern Medicine scientist Adam Sonabend: [R]eport results of the first in-human clinical trial using a skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate large, critical regions of the human brain. To try to translate this into simple words, the blood-brain barrier is something I don't understand. When we take two beers and drink them, we can feel it, so the alcohol has permeated the blood-brain barrier. But in the ordinary course of events, it is, in fact, a barrier for chemicals to enter the brain. Dr. Sonabend is finding a way to get beyond that barrier, and it is for the treatment of what is known as glioblastoma, brain cancer. We know that very well on a personal basis here in the U.S. Senate. We have lost John McCain to glioblastoma; Ted Kennedy to glioblastoma; one of our Democratic cloakroom staffers, Tim Mitchell, to glioblastoma; and Hunter Biden's brother, Beau Biden, died from glioblastoma. Why? I am going to try to say this in simple words, and I hope I don't misstate it.…”