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I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.

I'm very pro vaccine. I get all six of my kids vaccinated. I believe vaccines save millions of lives, and people ought to be getting vaccinated.

In some areas, immunity has been eroded so much that the child who's not vaccinated is now actually more vulnerable to the complications of infectious diseases.

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?

People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society.

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's insane to forgo this.