Health Quotes

"Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens"

Ari Fleischer, Public Servant

"Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?"

David Letterman, Comedian

"The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought"

John Salazar, Politician

"Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs"

Gary Miller, Politician

"The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina"

David Satcher, Politician

"Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health"

Christopher Shays, Politician

"In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it"

Bill Frist, Politician

"Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health"

Arthur Murphy, Writer

"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same"

A. R. Ammons, Poet

"Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude"

Aphra Behn, Dramatist

"It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most"

Jonah Lomu, Athlete

"Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care"

Howard Baker, Statesman

"Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone"

Russ Feingold, Politician

"America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention"

Tom Harkin, Politician

"The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on"

Jose Ramos-Horta

"Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward"

Jack Layton, Politician

"TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health"

Tom Petty, Musician

"The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits"

Mike Huckabee, Politician

"And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama"

Juan Williams, Journalist

"You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that"

Peter Shilton, Athlete

"If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family"

Donna Reed, Actress

"I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects"

Jack L. Chalker, Author

"We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities"

Robert Menendez, Politician

"Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health"

Martin Farquhar Tupper, Writer

"Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health"

Lois Capps, Politician

"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources"

Jon Kyl, Politician

"But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate"

Jim McDermott, Politician

"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them"

Marilyn Ferguson, Writer

"But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill"

Laura Ingraham, Celebrity

"It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight"

Kate Smith, Musician

"America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world"

Bill Frist, Politician

"A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health"

Clarence Day, Author

"My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic"

Chiang Kai-shek, Soldier

"There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend"

Chris A. Bridges, Author

"Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause"

Nathaniel Branden, Psychologist

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