I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.

I am a loyal American, and I love my country.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.