But I have to tell you, both of those groundbreaking projects, BRAIN and All of Us, are now at severe risk because of budget and workforce cuts.

Let me remind you of the last sentence of that Gettysburg Address: 'that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.'

I’m a patriot. I love my country, and I’m worried about my country right now.

I never used the word 'cure' for a lot of diseases, but sickle cell can be cured with some of these treatments, and we need to make sure people have access to them.

Francis Collins, then head of the NIH, labeled me a fringe epidemiologist.

Hi, Tony and Cliff. This proposal from three fringe epidemiologists... There needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises.

There's no excuse at this point, if you want to -- if you claim to be a good citizen, or believe in community or citizenship at all, to not get vaccinated, to not get boosted.

Public service is the most wonderful kind of experience you can have.

I`m a scientist, I`m a doctor, I`m not a politician, but somehow this is all gotten tangled up, and people have lost their grip on evidence of what ought to be used to make a decision like this.

Freedom has responsibilities, not just rights. And if this is what we have to do to get to the point where this virus is sent packing, well, that`s up to all of us to get there.

Freedom is about rights, but it's also about responsibilities.

This is a pandemic of those unvaccinated people. So, if there’s a way to encourage them by whatever carrots or sticks as long as it’s fair and just, then let’s look at that.

If we don’t want to see that terrible tragedy and loss of life continue at this pace, then maybe it’s time to get off the fence and say, OK, I heard - - I heard those things about conspiracies.

After all, some 40,000 deaths happen each year from firearms.

The President believes that with your help, we can learn from the lessons of pandemic and transfer this scientific momentum into big improvements in the health of all Americans.

We have to address this issue of structural racism.

It would make a great statement, Dr. Burgess--if every single Member of the U.S. Congress, all 535 would get vaccinated.

What I worry about this is it's being presented as if it's a major alternative view held by large numbers of experts in the scientific community. That is not true. This is fringed component of epidemiology. This is not mainstream science…

What you have done in terms of increasing the support for this has helped us hugely.

all of the NIH Institutes have been asked to come up with the most creative possible ideas that we could use to approach this epidemic of opioid overdose and death

it is also the greatest return on investment of anything that the government spends money on, $8.38 of return in 5 years from every dollar that you all allocate to NIH

We have never witnessed a time of greater promise for advances in medicine than right now.

I do think, though, that in Scott Gottlieb you have an FDA Commissioner who really is dedicated to moving things along as soon as the data makes it possible.

the 21st Century Cures Act aimed to catalyze a very important goal shared by all Americans; to speed the pace at which scientific discoveries are translated into lifesaving treatments and cures.