Health Quotes

"Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru"

Tracy Kidder, Author

"Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not"

Scott Brown, Politician

"I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health"

Lois Capps, Politician

"I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign"

Karen Duffy, Actress

"As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles"

Placido Domingo, Musician

"Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important"

Kendrick Meek, Politician

"I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me"

Pedro Martinez, Athlete

"Family, nature and health all go together"

Olivia Newton-John, Musician

"As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"I pray God may preserve your health and life many years"

Junipero Serra, Clergyman

"When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing"

Juan Williams, Journalist

"Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease"

Peter Latham, Athlete

"America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken"

Mike Ferguson, Politician

"We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure"

Robert Menendez, Politician

"The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget"

John Spratt, Politician

"Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics"

Mark Dayton, Politician

"For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system"

Nathan Deal, Politician

"We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue"

Mark Steyn, Writer

"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control"

Robert Foster Bennett, Politician

"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie"

Nora Ephron, Author

"However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen"

Luis Gutierrez, Politician

"The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it"

Kenneth Clarke, Politician

"We will have health care reform in America"

Dick Durbin, Politician

"Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing"

Lou Gramm, Musician

"It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical"

Clive Barker, Writer

"The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected"

William Hall, Soldier

"For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism"

Walter Rudolf Hess, Scientist

"The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates"

Mary Landrieu, Politician

"We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

"I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education"

Kathleen Sebelius, Politician

"Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances"

Todd Solondz, Writer

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