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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.

I do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

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

What I saw when I was doing research is that in pursuit of a middle ground, people will kind of split the difference between the two extremes that they're hearing. And I think what's problematic is that people are seeing vaccinating on schedule, on time, as an extreme position.

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.

I think that people's resistance to vaccination isn't going to disappear until we address some of the nonmedical reasons for that resistance and people's discomfort and distrust of the government. That's bigger than what most medical professionals can handle.

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

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

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

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.