Your average Republican member of Congress, if you played a word association game with them and said, 'Latino,' they're going to respond 'illegal immigrant,' as opposed to 'sergeant major' or 'surgeon' or 'professor.'

Once the surgeon said the skull is strong enough with the helmet on, I decided to return to training with the team.

I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.

Whenever people want to talk about how hard it is to be an actor, I want to go, 'Um, it's hard to be a baby-heart surgeon.'

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

I was going to be a surgeon at one point, and I remember being taught that the surgical heroes aren't the ones that can staunch the bleeding; what you want is the surgeon that doesn't cause any bleeding in the first place.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.

I was going to be a surgeon at one point, and I remember being taught that the surgical heroes aren't the ones that can staunch the bleeding; what you want is the surgeon that doesn't cause any bleeding in the first place.

Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.

I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

I grew up in a very high-achieving family. I have a brother who's a Harvard-educated cardiothoracic surgeon. My other brother is a two-time Olympian, fifth-round draft pick for the Philadelphia Eagles, and an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

I'm very lucky in that I have a good cosmetic surgeon.

I was damn sure that I was not going to be a lawyer or a brain surgeon.

My original plan was to be a surgeon.