08/22/2002
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"My heartfelt sympathies and those of the American people are with the victims of this terrible tragedy and their families."
"I have concluded that we should allow federal funds to be used for research on these existing stem cell lines"
"Federal funding of medical research on these existing stem cell lines will promote the sanctity of life without undermining it"
"Nothing is gained through cowardly acts such as this."