"... each child who is born should be treated an individual. If you make a copy of a person, you are saying that you don’t want a child, but a person just like the one you’re cloning. If you clone a running back, for example, you’re saying to that child, “Don’t be you, be a running back.” You’re choosing his path for him.” – Ian Wilmut, creator of Dolly
"I think it's important to distinguish the science-fiction scenarios from reality. The science-fiction scenarios are little armies of Hitlers running around. But governments are not going to clone people. Governments do not reproduce. People reproduce, and we have to get back to a basic biological fact, which is that people want to have children to raise and to love. This is part of our nature. Governments have never produced children, and I don't think that they ever will." – Lee Silver, Princeton University Biologist
“while we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.” --- George W.Bush
“Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.” --- Bill Clinton