"It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.“

-Eliot Spitzer

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"Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change."

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