Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

There is no health without mental health.

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.

People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

Desperate.

I couldn’t bring myself to call him either “Bill, ” which would signal friendly familiarity, or “Doctor Vogel, ” which would imply respect.

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life.

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.

Hepatitis C was a devastating disease but because fundamental research was done in hepatitis C, it is now curable. It is now absolutely curable with new medications. So this is transformative.

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.