Health Quotes

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
– Johannes Brahms
Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
– Barbara Castle
This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
– Jim Hightower
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
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
Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.
– Jay Inslee
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
– Nancy Pelosi
Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.
– John Cornyn
They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.
– John Anderson
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
– Chris Christie
These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.
– Bernie Sanders
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
– Avicenna
There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.
– Arlen Specter
There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.
– Jeffrey Kluger
There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.
– Jon Ronson
There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.
– Peter Garrett
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
– Marian Wright Edelman
There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health.
– Patty Murray
There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.
– Eric Ries
There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.
– Paul Ryan
There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
– Karl Lagerfeld
There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.
– Matthew Lesko
There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
– C. Everett Koop
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
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
– Samuel Butler
The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.
– Andrew Weil
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.
– Pauline Hanson
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
– B. B. King
The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.
– Roger Mahony
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
– Placido Domingo
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.
– Muhammad Iqbal
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
– Nicholas D. Kristof
The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
– Felicity Huffman
The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
– Andrew Bernstein
The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
– Samantha Morton
The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.
– John Conyers
The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.
– John Cornyn
The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems.
– John M. McHugh
The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
– Tom Vilsack
The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.
– George J. Mitchell
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
– T-Bone Burnett
The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.
– Ari Fleischer
The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.
– Ron Wyden
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
– Jon Voight
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
– Jamie Oliver
The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.
– Simon Mainwaring
The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.
– Paul Ryan
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
– Herbert Spencer
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
– Mark Hyman
The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
– Benjamin Walker
The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.
– Ruben Hinojosa
The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.
– Debbie Stabenow
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
The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.
– Thomas Frank
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
– James Otis
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
– Shelley Berman
The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.
– Fred Upton
The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.
– Andrew Weil
The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.
– Andrew Bernstein
The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.
– Andrew Weil
The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
– Mark Steyn
The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
– Francesca Annis
The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees.
– Jim Ryun
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
– Peter Agre
The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.
– Paul Gillmor
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
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
– Sir Philip Sidney
The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
– Cynthia Nixon
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
– Steven Rattner
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
– Eddie Bernice Johnson
The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.
– Bill McCollum
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
– C. Everett Koop
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
– Anna Quindlen
The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.
– Jami Gertz
The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.
– John Shadegg
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
– Rutherford B. Hayes
The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill to end the bailouts cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.
– Mitch McConnell
The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
– Jimmy Carter
The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.
– David Axelrod
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
– Mark Steyn
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
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn't available.
– Debbie Stabenow
The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.
– Betty White
The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.
– Andrew Weil
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
– Jeff Goodell
The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.
– Paul Farmer
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
– Sidney Blumenthal
The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
– Mark Hyman
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
– Jimmy Carter
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
– Jean Kerr
The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
– James Earl Jones
The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.
– Rowan D. Williams
The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.
– Paul Gillmor
The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.
– John Zimmerman