“I think that he feels like he has a real mandate for change.”

“I think that he feels like he has a real mandate for change.”

John Podesta

Barack Obama’s transition chief.

“This takes prevention to a whole new level, because it applies to patients who we now wouldn’t have any evidence to treat.”

Dr. W. Douglas Weaver

A Detroit cardiologist, on data showing cholesterol-lowering statin drugs lower rates of heart attacks.

“Too long we’ve been at the bottom of the totem pole, but he has vindicated us, hallelujah.”

The Rev. Shirley Caesar-Williams

At Mount Calvary Word of Faith Church in Raleigh, N.C.

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