As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.

Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

We are guests in our patients' lives.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

Right now, we are doing it blindly.

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Whatever you think you are, you are always bigger than that...

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

Constancy in a man is rare.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

If you don't feel something strongly you're not going to achieve.

I'm not running for some Americans but for all Americans.

The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.