“The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. Let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal.”
- Richard Nixon, State of the Union, 1971
“We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s lives. It may save someone you love.”
- Jim Valvano, 1993 ESPY Speech
“When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.”
- Lance Armstrong
“With pancreatic cancer, I learned a new word: ‘nihilistic.’ It means, ‘given up…too hard.’ Well, I don’t believe in ‘too hard.’ I believe that by funding [pancreatic] cancer research, we will be going after the hardest problem…[pancreatic] cancer is a disease that I think we can beat, but it’s going to take continued courage and funding…”
- Dr. Randy Pausch, Testimony before Congress, March 13, 2008
“…this is not acceptable in this country. This is something that could happen to any of us. And this is a disease, as we know, that affects not just those diagnosed with it, and not just those who’ve survived it and those who’ve lost their lives to it, but it is a disease that also affects those who love and know them—which these days seems like every single person in this country.”
- Michelle Obama, 2009, Remarks on Breast Cancer Awareness
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