Health Quotes

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.
– Jay Weatherill
I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
– Victoria Principal
I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.
– Stephen Hawking
I believe in health care reform.
– Joe Manchin III
I believe health care is a civil right.
– Dennis Kucinich
I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.
– Dianne Feinstein
I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don't take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health.
– Sherri Shepherd
I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.
– Elizabeth Hurley
I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.
– Arlen Specter
I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.
– John Cameron
I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.
– Daniel Hannan
I am not obsessive about anything except my health.
– Linda Gray
I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.
– Andrew Weil
I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.
– Donna Shalala
I am in very good health. I've never felt better.
– Hugh Hefner
I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.
– Eric Cantor
I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.
– Steven Hatfill
I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
– Karen Duffy
I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.
– Teri Hatcher
I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.
– Laura Hillenbrand
I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.
– Russ Carnahan
I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.
– Ron Wyden
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
– Paul Krugman
Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.
– David Suzuki
Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.
– Andrew Weil
However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.
– Tim Murphy
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
– William Shatner
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
– Michael Caine
Hey 'Bachelor,' take notes! Trusting one another and sharing a journey to health leads to lasting relationships!
– Alison Sweeney
Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.
– Eric Ries
Healthy people live with their world.
– Anne Wilson Schaef
Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.
– Max Baucus
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Health is the core of human development.
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
– Mary Baker Eddy
Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.
– Doug E. Fresh
Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.
– Malcolm Fraser
Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
– Karen Mills
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
– Tom Allen
Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
– Robert M. Gates
Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.
– John Shadegg
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
– Roy Ayers
Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.
– Louise Slaughter
Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
– Ann Veneman
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
– Mark Steyn
Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.
– Ron Fournier
Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.
– Anne Wilson Schaef
Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.
– Fred Upton
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
General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
– Kathleen Sebelius
From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.
– John Hutton
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
– Dirk Benedict
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.
– Jonathan Sacks
For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.
– Valerie Jarrett
For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
– David Suzuki
For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.
– Michelle Malkin
For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
– Nathan Deal
For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.
– Ron Wyden
For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
– Jhumpa Lahiri
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option it is a basic health care necessity.
– Louise Slaughter
For many years I didn't have health insurance.
– Chad Harbach
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
– Fred Thompson
Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.
– Ron Wyden
Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.
– Lou Gramm
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
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
– Theodor Adorno
Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
– Gail Porter
Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier, smarter, and more energetic.
– Robert Pozen
Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.
– Merle Haggard
Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.
– Peter Singer
Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.
– Chris Van Hollen
Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.
– Luke Bryan
Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.
– Max Baucus
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
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
Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
– Ivan Illich
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
– Rowan D. Williams
Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
– Jeff Bridges
Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.
– Timothy Murphy
Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.
– Jan Schakowsky
During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.
– Jane D. Hull
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
– John Spratt
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
– Francesco Petrarch
Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?
– Anthony Weiner
Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
– Sargent Shriver
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
– Ralph Merkle
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.
– Tony Dungy
Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.
– Jim Clyburn
Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?
– Lisa Edelstein
Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.
– Louise Slaughter
Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.
– Bill Kristol
Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
– Felicity Huffman
Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
– Donald Berwick
Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.
– Jan Schakowsky
Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
– Curt Weldon
Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.
– Jerry Costello
City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
– L. Neil Smith
Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.
– Andrew Weil
Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.
– Jane Fonda