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In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.

Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Dealing with the health of people is more important than political considerations.

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.

Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.