Francis Collins: “If Federal funds were terminated for the support of human embryonic stem cell research, that would be an absolutely…”

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.'

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

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

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