Francis Collins: “There's no excuse at this point, if you want to -- if you claim to be a good citizen, or believe in community or…”

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.

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

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.

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