Quotations

«What standards will guide the genetic engineers?»

«It is not the issue I want my own work solely remembered for.»

«to consider not just the technologies ... but also to see how those things which impinge on our humanity, in fact, touch our personal aspirations, our human longings, our duties.»

«We are on the threshold and may have already crossed the threshold of a large crisis of long-term care.»

«I believe that if we really do pour our resources into these alternatives, ... we might find a morally unproblematic and uncontroversial way to get this research done.»

«[But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics.] When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, ... Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.»