Dick Cheney Quotes

The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

I do absolutely want to be around as long as possible. I tell my son: 'You do realise, I am going to live to 100.'

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.

I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

I don't want to die an old lady.

Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.