Leon Kass

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.