Francis Collins: “That would not achieve the goal that we all would have to agree is critical for our future.”

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

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.'

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

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.