928 private quotes tagged health

“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

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“I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.” — Dennis Kucinich

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“By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.” — Ingrid Newkirk

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“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

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“When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.” — Bobby Jindal

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“In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.” — Dennis Kucinich

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“Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.” — Dennis Kucinich

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“Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.” — Gail Porter

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“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

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“My background is in health care.” — Bobby Jindal

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“Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.” — Robert Southey

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“I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.” — Derek Jacobi

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“You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.” — Paul Farmer

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“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

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“If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.” — Paul Farmer

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“Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.” — Gro Harlem Brundtland

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“We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.” — Paul Hawken

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“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

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“I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.” — John Cameron

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“I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.” — David Axelrod

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“That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.” — Studs Terkel

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“It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.” — Kate Smith

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“My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.” — Warren Christopher

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“I believe health care is a civil right.” — Dennis Kucinich

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“You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.” — Corrine Brown

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