Jay Leno Quotes

I am the first podiatrist to serve in the U.S. Congress.

Anybody who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

My background is in health care.

My father was a doctor.

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

It is a very sad day for America when political ideology overrules good science and public health practices. The Food and Drug Administration has denied allowing the emergency contraception drug Plan B to be sold over-the-counter—ignoring its own panel of expert physicians, scientists and public health professionals who had voted overwhelmingly in favor of making the drug available over-the-counter … This pandering to right wing radicals will lead to more unwanted pregnancy, more abortions, and another step backwards for the women of our country.

We never go against a candidate for one or two votes. You can’t.

Becoming a doctor, I can only help my village. By becoming a politician I can help my whole country.

Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.

My wife is a doctor at a veteran's hospital.

Let me make it clear: I support health care reform. I just don't support Nancy Pelosi's version.

Doctors are very popular with women.

As soon as you know that someone is running for office, it puts a distance between you and that person.

I became an MP in 2017 and have been around to watch Liberal Democrat party membership soar.

My father is a doctor and my mother ran the local pharmacy. Growing up, I saw firsthand the difference they made to our community.

I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.

I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.