class - adjective: inflected forms: class·i·er, class·i·est. informal highly stylish; elegant
A sliver of dignity in what's been an otherwise undignified fall for everyone involved:
...People who have the ticking clock of ALS, where they waste away, kids who are born with juvenile diabetes, I mean, potentially there’s answers for those people and we're not interested in being exhibitionists with our symptoms or asking for pity or anything else. We're just resolved to get moving with this science. It’s been a long time. It’s not a time neutral observation. It’s not something we can sit back and abstractly talk about. While people are talking about it, there are people attached to this issue, which is one of the reasons I did this. It’s not necessarily the most comfortable thing for me to do and necessarily what I want to be doing. I’ve got 4 kids. I like to be spending time with them, but if it takes seeing a face that people recognize and say ‘hey, I know that guy,’ maybe they'll realize that they know other people. There's 100 million Americans that are either touched by an incurable illness, or know somebody who has incurable illness, or love somebody who has incurable illness. There’s 100 million Americans and most of the American population -- 70 percent -- favor this research because they know what it means. But what happens is you get to an election time and things fall away. And what I hoped was by being that guy that people would say, ‘Hey, I know that guy,’ that we'd 14 days out from an election, be talking about stem cells. And we are. And I'm greatly gratified. And if that means taking a beating from that faction of the media, you know, that’s fine. If bringing the message means the messenger gets roughed up a little bit, I'm happy to be that guy.
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