The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.

In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

We should be willing to spend the money in return for the innovation.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.", NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

There's no such thing as the middle of nowhere. Something is happening everywhere. You just have to find the story in it.

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all.

I'll make love to you in all good places, under black mountains and open spaces.

Love for me is the most sophisticated form that one can give for his desire, may be the only faith is remarkable on human being.

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.