Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

without the mind the body is not capable of delivering anything beyond an average performance.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

I was warmly embraced by the Tea Party. They openly seek more minorities.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.