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" If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't. "

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" It takes some courage to say you were wrong. "

" As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior. "

" I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases. "

" I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations. "

" In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate. "

" Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country. "

" I have a hard time arguing with stupid people. "

" All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting. "

" If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them. "

" I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get. "

" I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students. "

" Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses. "

" It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration. "

" I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers. "

" When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists. "

" My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not. "

" I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness. "

" It turns out that the term 'diversity' can be anything from black faculty to military veterans. Well, I am both, but have yet to be subjected to discrimination because I'm a veteran. "

" I had a grandmother who was really strong, who doted on me, who wanted to make sure that I didn't go off the beaten path, although I did. "

" The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn't. "

" You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence. "