Francis Collins: “If we were to diminish the frequency of cancer by just one percent, that's saving our country $500 billion.”

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

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

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

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.