As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.