“I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recr...” — Richard Carmona Quote

“I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recruited me when I was surgeon general, to run for Congress, to run against Gov. Napolitano. But I didn't feel it was my calling... I felt, 'Well, I'm flattered, but I really would rather stay and be the doctor of the nation and stay as surgeon general.'”

“When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern Arizona. Teaching at the university; my law enforcement career. Sitting on some boards. All the things I did before.”

“To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.”

“Limping in - entering a pot by calling rather than raising - is more complicated than raise-or-fold poker because you'll end up playing more hands. Also, it's difficult to put players on a hand when they're in the pot without making a pre-flop raise.”

“There's certain things that we do work with Russia on, and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.”