Quotes About Embryonic Stem Cells

#1. The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.

Steve Israel

#2. Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.

Eliot Engel

#3. Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.

Tom Allen

#4. Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

James D. Watson

#5. Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.

Jim Ramstad

#6. The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

Virginia Foxx

#7. Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell.

Mort Kondracke

#8. Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

Paul Berg

#9. There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the laboratory, and there is certainly nothing in the clinics available to patients.

Michael Burgess

#10. So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference.

Virginia Foxx

#11. Your inner messages stand apart because rather than trying to control you, your soul wants to liberate you.

Catherine Carrigan

#12. I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

Harry Belafonte

#13. Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

George W. Bush

#14. The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.

Tom DeLay

#15. I am pro-life. I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.

Bill Frist

#16. I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, The only people who never hurt are dead.

Jim Butcher

#17. So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research. Eugenics.

Glenn Beck

#18. Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

George W. Bush

#19. I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.

Cus D'Amato

#20. Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.

Onyi Anyado

#21. I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

Michael Sandel

#22. Breckin, this is Holder. Holder is not my boyfriend, but if I catch him trying to break the record for best first kiss with another girl, then he'll soon be my not breathing non-boyfriend.

Colleen Hoover

#23. Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

E.B. White

#24. Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

John Jay Chapman

#25. 'The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

Amy Ryan

#26. Ordinary people have extraordinary love.

Clay Walker

#27. Bill Clinton, who packs his own star power, has been a big draw as well as a big drag on his wife's campaign.

Andrew Rosenthal

#28. It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Billy Collins

#29. I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propositions about which you get to make up your mind before you know the work they are meant to do.

Stanley Hauerwas