Health Quotes

"America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people"

William Scranton, Politician

"Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality"

Allen West, Politician

"If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room"

David Lehman, Poet

"When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us"

Bart Stupak, Politician

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing"

Redd Foxx, Actor

"It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself"

Bill Munson

"If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies"

David Obey, Politician

"America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats"

Christopher Bond, Politician

"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system"

Walter Cronkite, Journalist

"Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs"

Mel Carnahan, Politician

"In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here"

Donald Berwick, Public Servant

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not"

Mark Twain, Author

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance"

Plato, Philosopher

"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Wildlife trafficking is not just an animal welfare issue. It is a global security threat, an environmental threat, and a threat to our health and well-being"

Peter Knights, Activist