Health Quotes

"It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East"

Richard H. Davis

"Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation"

Patty Murray, Politician

"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it"

Tom Allen, Politician

"The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's"

Warren Cuccurullo, Musician

"Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health"

Levy Mwanawsa

"So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America"

Curt Weldon, Politician

"We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul"

George A. Smith, Clergyman

"Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination"

Richard Reeves, Writer

"Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill"

Lamar Alexander, Politician

"Quit worrying about your health. It will go away"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!"

Kiana Tom, Model

"The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!"

Tom Allen, Politician

"The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available"

Daniel Akaka, Politician

"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources"

Greg Walden, Politician

"Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals"

Bernard Hinault, Athlete

"I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12"

January Jones, Actress

"Lack of time is a real health killer"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not"

Donald Berwick, Public Servant

"The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies"

Harry A. Blackmun, Judge

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