Health Quotes

"City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure"

"A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health"

Avicenna, Philosopher

"When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death"

Tammy Bruce, Author

"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace"

Margaret Chan, Public Servant

"Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy"

John Conyers, Politician

"People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system"

Ron Kind, Politician

"As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation"

Ron Kind, Politician

"When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack"

Gwen Moore, Politician

"I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment"

Muhammed Iqbal, Poet

"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue"

Mary Antin, Activist

"But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs"

Lamar Alexander, Politician

"I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs"

John Warnock, Scientist

"I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either"

Gary Bauer, Public Servant

"If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat"

Lewis Black, Comedian

"We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups"

Tom Allen, Politician

"American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"I believe health care is a civil right"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"Health care should be affordable for everyone"

Ed Pastor, Politician

"Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better"

Robert Redford, Actor

"Actually, I've been a fanatical health nut for five years"

Jerome Hines, Musician

"I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families"

Steve Kerr, Athlete

"Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible"

Michael Bennett

"We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase"

David Obey, Politician

"It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden"

David Obey, Politician

"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable"

Knute Nelson, Politician

"As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases"

Mike Rogers

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