Alive Quote by Arlen Specter

If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

— Arlen Specter

More than 40 years after the war on cancer was declared by President Richard Nixon in 1971, we are not much closer to preventing…

— Margaret Cuomo

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.

— Joe Biden

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering…

— Patti Davis

His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most

— Maggie Stiefvater

We once thought of cancer as an incurable disease; then we started treating it.

— David Andrew Sinclair

We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many…

— Eva LaRue

“...Maude Harris told me that all was well with the world because medical science had profited by the war. That is an epitome of…

— Joe Gould

In a time when our military struggles to recruit and retain personnel, and we are still searching for a cure to cancer, raising awareness…

— John E. James

There's a cancer on the presidency.

— John Dean

The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because if the…

— Robert Dallek

We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.

— Joel Fuhrman