David Kessler Quotations

No one wins this, ... It's chipping away at it. I don't think anybody can win it.

Many times in our society, children are the forgotten grievers because they don't grieve the way we do. They don't openly talk about how they are feeling because they don't have the vocabulary. How on earth would kids know how to describe these feelings?

If it's good enough for McDonald's, it should be good enough for the Department of Agriculture.

What you need to do today is to focus on the science.

Pitching one drug when in fact there are other options that could be more effective -- that I believe can be dangerous.

It had been a rough previous 10 years. It was a deregulatory period, ... I did come in at a low point.

We were able to get out of our lease early in Dublin, and we can't wait to get here.

was a slow-moving target that bleeds profusely when hit.

Is it going to be considered as an exception within the framework of the WTO, or are people at it going to say, 'Oh, this has been signed at UNESCO, but it does not touch our work.' This question will be at the heart of the battles to come,

The question was whether the government could (regulate advertising) under the provisions of the act,

We think the case is a strong one, ... What is at stake is the future health of so many of our children.

Immunity is a very high price for the country to pay because you are in essence denying people their rights.

I have very serious concerns that the settlement as it's written could effectively make it impossible for the FDA to regulate tobacco.

In the end, it was about educating the public,

If you can get a young person to the age of 18, 19 or 20 and they have not begun to smoke, it is unlikely they ever will.

All they have to say on TV is there's a gas shortage and prices go up. I'm upset.

It's a judicious approach to balancing the need for transplants, but also minimizing the risk. It's a very cautious approach, because the risks are very real.

How many people say, 'I'm going to smoke this one and 780,000 more?'