Quotes about: health

As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a matter of principle, we believe nothing should interfere with that doctor-patient relationship. As a matter of principle, we believe all Americans deserve affordable, available, and reliable quality health care.
– Bill Frist
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
– Richard Buckminster Fuller
If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged; they are fatted for destruction, thou art dieted for health.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.
– Russ Feingold
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
– Redd Foxx
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
– Mahatma Gandhi
As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.
– Bill Gates
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
– Billy Graham
There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.
– Christine Gregoire
Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.
– Dick Gephardt
When a child, my mother taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom and protection. Sometimes we prayed in silence, sometimes each one prayed aloud; sometimes an aged person prayed for all of us... and to Usen.
– Geronimo
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
– John B. S. Haldane
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
– William Hall
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
– Tom Harkin
Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.
– Tom Harkin
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
– Patrick Henry
We became one of the first states in the nation to approve common-sense restrictions on smoking in public places, balancing the rights ofsmokers with the rights of a public who deserve to live in good health.
– Brad Henry
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
– Hippocrates
I would hope that we would treat these funds as help for health-related problems for our citizens, not a bonanza of bucks for politicians to fund pet projects.
– Mike Huckabee
One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away.
– Mike Huckabee
The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.
– Mike Huckabee
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
– Leigh Hunt
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
– Gilbert Highet
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.
– Henrik Ibsen
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
– Ivan Illich
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
– Holbrook Jackson
The politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?
– Roy Jenkins
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
– Benjamin Jowett
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
– Chiang Kai-shek
Health is my expected heaven.
– John Keats
I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision.
– John F. Kerry
I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.
– John F. Kerry
The problems of health care can be solved if we stop giving tax cuts to those who have the most, and start making health care affordable for those working harder and harder for too little.
– John F. Kerry
Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.
– Herb Kohl
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
– Dennis Kucinich
Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.
– Jon Kyl
It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.
– Jon Kyl
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
The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
– Mary Landrieu
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
– Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
– General Robert E. Lee
Plans are being discussed as to who will replace Dick Cheney if he has to resign for health reasons. It's not easy for President Bush, he can't just name a replacement. He would first have to be confirmed by the oil, gas and power companies.
– Jay Leno
President Bush announced tonight that he believes in democracy and that democracy can exist in Iraq. They can have a strong economy, they can have a good health care plan, and they can have a free and fair voting. Iraq? We can't even get this in Florida.
– Jay Leno
Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan?
– Jay Leno
Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?
– David Letterman
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
– Carl Levin
A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
– Blanche Lincoln
Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.
– Blanche Lincoln
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
– John Locke
The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You go out and perform every day, so you gotta take care of yourself, health-wise, as far as drinking enough water, getting enough sleep. You're having after parties every day. You're on the road, you're messing with women, you're doing this, you're doing that. It's crazy. I mean, it was a great experience, what can I say? I loved it.
– Ludacris
To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
– William Londen
Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
– Karl A. Menninger
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychiatry from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us and the new and different concepts of illness and health.
– Karl A. Menninger
Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.
– Ruth Ann Minner
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
– Ashley Montagu
Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need to cement this federal commitment to Alaskans so the state has the assurance that money vital for providing Medicaid health care will not just dry up and disappear.
– Lisa Murkowski
Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.
– Patty Murray
Why are people so supportive of him [Osama bin Laden] in many countries? He's been out in these countries for decades building roads, building schools, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful.
– Patty Murray
I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
– Pedro Martinez
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
– William Menninger
If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!
– Bill Munson
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
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
– Arthur Murphy
Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.
– Levy Mwanawsa
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
– Ralph Nader
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
– John Nash
For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.
– Ben Nelson
The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
– Bill Nelson
What is in the public interest? It is in the public interest to eliminate a threat to public health and safety.
– Bill Nelson
Family, nature and health all go together.
– Olivia Newton-John
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
– P. J. O'Rourke
Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
– Robert Orben
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
– Ovid
It's not just frivolous lawsuits that weigh down the economy; the ever-increasing cost of health insurance does, too.
– Bill Owens
We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.
– Timothy Pawlenty
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
– Norman Vincent Peale
You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.
– Norman Vincent Peale
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast.
– William Penn
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
– Anne Perry
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
– Plutarch
Health consists with temperance alone.
– Alexander Pope
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
– Alexander Pope
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
– Colin Powell
With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
– Lisa Marie Presley
You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.
– Reynolds Price
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
– Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.
– Prince Philip
The first and most important point to remember is that eating should be a pleasure - do not eat purely for health, you won't live much longer, but it will feel like an eternity.
– Mark Porter
If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.
– Donna Reed
As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.
– Bill Richardson
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
– Jean Paul Richter
Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.
– Jim Riley
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
– Jim Rohn
The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a billion dollars is a very big number.
– Mitt Romney
Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.
– Mike Rounds