Political Quotes

“we have here a little poster that tells the story and tells you the intricate number of steps and areas in which we are involved on behalf of the American people. That is the important thing. Are you not interested as an American in the person down the street who has cancer and might be dying from cancer? Are you not concerned about him? How about your own child who might need a new device, a new biotechnical device to sustain life? How about an elderly person that is beginning to be afflicted by Alzheimer's? Do we not want to do something about this? That is what we are going to be doing in the continued work of the National Institutes of Health. And doubling it will increase the focus and effort on every one of these diseases that can plague your family or the people down the street. For instance, the human genome project will enable doctors to identify individuals at increased risk for diseases like hypertension and stroke, glaucoma, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's or severe depression. These are not just labels that we throw out. These are living organisms of disease that are killing us, that are hurting us as an American people; and we are trying through this effort to reduce the pain and suffering and to eliminate the early deaths that so hurt our Nation. Our ultimate goal will be to find ways to prevent the development of progression of these diseases and design ways to intervene to prevent the development of these horrific diseases as we have said.…”