Political Quotes

“I rise in response to the amendment of the Senator from Arizona on clinical trials. I will spend the next few minutes reflecting on what clinical trials are and how many clinical trials are out there, the tremendous benefit and the power of clinical trials to translate basic science, basic knowledge to the patient, to the clinical application to that patient, and then that transfer or discovery and creation and investment in research at the basic level, that transition through clinical trials in order to have practical application in terms of curing cancer or heart disease or lung disease or kidney disease or Parkinson's disease, a neurological disease. It can't be done without the transition through clinical trials. I have participated in a number of clinical trials as a scientist and as a surgeon. I have participated in clinical trials as an investigator of artificial hearts. I have participated in clinical trials in heart valves that have been inserted to see whether or not those heart valves would work, whether they would last. I have participated in clinical trials in prescription drugs and in immunosuppressive drugs, drugs given to transplant patients to fight infections and to suppress the immune system so a transplanted heart could survive short term, midterm, and long term.”