"You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed"

"To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth"

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory"

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it"

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping"

"Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived"

"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men"

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them"