An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

God's grace is a gift just as life is a gracious breath.

The greatest dilemma man has to face is figuring out what to do with his time

As you improve yourself, those around you benefit and are, themselves, improved!

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.