Vice President Joe Biden said Monday he’s upset that some people have lost their faith in government, but said curing cancer would help reverse that.
“It disturbs me for the first time in my career … some of the American people are no longer of the view that we can do anything,” Biden said while discussing his cancer “moonshot” task force’s report that he delivered to President Obama on Monday.
“I’m not being figurative; I’m being literal,” Biden said. “We can do virtually anything. We have the talent; we have the resources; we have the commitment and we have the capacity,” he said about American doctors’ and scientists’ ability to eventually cure cancer.
“It will regenerate the public’s sense of optimism” when they do, he said.
