Bill Frist
Bill Frist
William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr.is an American physician, businessman, and politician. He began his career as a heart and lung transplant surgeon. Frist later served two terms as a Republican United States Senator representing Tennessee, serving as Majority Leader from 2003 until his retirement in 2007...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 February 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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If your daughter has diabetes, if your father has Parkinson's, if your sister has a spinal cord injury, ... your views will be swayed more powerfully than you can imagine by the hope that a cure will be found in those magnificent cells, recently discovered, that today originate only in an embryo.
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I do not expect that this year will be any easier than in the recent past, but I am confident that for the sake of this institution and the congressional budget process, we will do the most basic of our responsibilities this year-produce a budget.
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We ask that at least until these issues are fully resolved, that the Senate not take any further action on the legislation,
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With his passing ... the Supreme Court loses one of the most prolific scholars and brilliant minds ever to sit on the federal bench,
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We all have to sacrifice in various ways as we likely engage in military conflict, which we could not have anticipated a year ago, which is not fully budgeted and which ultimately will have to compete with what many of us want.
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To me, I see no disconnect between that and stem cell research, ... I base my beliefs on stem cell research both on science and my faith.
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If we're successful today ... 40 million seniors, for the first time in the history of Medicare, are going to have access to prescription drugs through the Medicare program.
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China and India are generating scientists and engineers at a furious pace while America lags dangerously behind.
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Since when does a senator's questioning of a witness become a sign of a lack of dignity or respect?
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We can no longer compromise America's border security, allowing potentially dangerous individuals and materials to slip freely across the border and into our country,
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I think today a pluralistic society should have access to a broad range of fact, of science, including faith,
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It isn't just a matter of faith, it's a matter of science, ... The president's policy should be modified.
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I don't think we should legislate a track that gives a privileged status to people who broke the law.