928 private quotes tagged health

“I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.” — Junipero Serra

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“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

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“We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.” — M. Scott Peck

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“People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.” — Calvin Klein

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“The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game eliminate waste and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.” — Kevin Rudd

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“Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.” — Carl Levin

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“We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.” — Michael Bloomberg

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“We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.” — Mehmet Oz

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“If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.” — Michael Moore

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“People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.” — Laurence Sterne

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“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

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“Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.” — Bobby Scott

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“Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.” — Laurence Sterne

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“I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.” — Leighton Meester

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“It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.” — Jim Ramstad

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“We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.” — Benjamin Carson

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“No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.” — Mehmet Oz

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“It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.” — Martha Plimpton

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“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

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“Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of.” — Thomas Frank

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“I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!” — Betty White

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“Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.” — Martha Plimpton

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“Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.” — Nicholas D. Kristof

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“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

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