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...willing to embrace significant change, then you're looking at the right person. But if you just want to keep the trains running on time, don't ask me to do this job." - when offered her first position in the Treasury in 1997, Washington Post...
...doctor first ... If I had to choose one [profession] today, I'd choose medicine." - On whether his TV career takes precedence over his medical one, Washington Post...
...selection of Dr. Sanjay Gupta as President-elect Barack Obama's pick for surgeon general makes perfect sense. As a television personality, he has ample experience communicating with Americans about health issues in a necessarily simple way - and that is really the bulk of the job (though the Washington Post reports that Gupta has been offered a concurrent position in the new White House Office of Health Reform), though most surgeons general have been largely invisible since the days of Ronald Reagan's C. Everett Koop, who spoke out often against the dangers of smoking. Bill Clinton's Joycelyn Elders...
...public-health experience or qualifications he has to be the leader of the nation's public-health service." - Gerard M. Farrell, executive director of the Commissioned Officers Association of the Public Health Service (the body headed by the surgeon general), on Gupta's lack of credentials, Washington Post...
...Does it compromise my journalistic objectivity to say that Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a dick?" - Rachel Sklar, Huffington Post media columnist, on Gupta, after an incident in which Gupta (incorrectly, according to Sklar) accused Michael Moore of including misinformation in his health-care documentary Sicko, Huffington Post, July...