“In May, my staff worked with outside counsel and with the Senate ethics committee staff to draft a written communication to the trustees.”

As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions.

After obtaining pre-approval by mid-June from the Senate ethics committee, I issued a letter directing my trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock in my family’s trust.

As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a matter of principle, we believe nothing should interfere with that doctor-patient relationship.

Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world.

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

It is very important that the president thematically shows where we’re going in terms of the vision and an agenda.

The United States has put more money on HIV, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis than any country in the world and it’s having an impact real quick.

The number one killer of children in Rwanda is malaria. Since the United States of America stood up and working with Rwandans, we have been able to cut those deaths by two-thirds.

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can’t help but reach for the stars. It’s our nature. It’s our destiny.

We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible.

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion.

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.

I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.

I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.