Health Quotes Quotes

"The wish for healing has always been half of health."

"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years."

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."

"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially."

"We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them."

"You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae."

"I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge."

"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind."

"Your body hears everything your mind says."

"Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health."

"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."

"A healthy outside starts from the inside."

"Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die."

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."

"Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work."

"I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much."

"True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

"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."

"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways."

"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."

"America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention."

"I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful."

"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."

"My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones."

"People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it."

"My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?"

"I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy."

"I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it."

"The body is a sacred garment."

"I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine."

"Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good."

"Arguments are healthy. They clear the air."

"I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944."

"I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap."

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."

"I stand before you a totally healthy person."

"I'm still healthy as can be."

"I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else."

"I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living."

"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."

"You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters."

"I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover."

"Healthy people live with their world."

"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."

"Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

"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."

"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."

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost when health is lost, something is lost when character is lost, all is lost."

"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."

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself."

"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."

"Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific."

"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."

"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."

"After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land."

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."

"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."

"But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that."

"Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list."

"I pray God may preserve your health and life many years."

"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship."

"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."

"Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people."

"On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it."

"If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat."

"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."

"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it."

"One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities."

"The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife."

"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible."

"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."

"If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."

"Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."

"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization."

"I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare."

"The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation."

"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."

"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."

"If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow."

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

"I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so."

"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."

"You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well."

"Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies."

"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money."

"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."

"I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it."

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned."

"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie."

"Health consists with temperance alone."

"I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones."

"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system."

"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."

"Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."

"At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues."

"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."

"Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health."

"I received free health care."

"Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy."

"In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer."

"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."

"When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do."

"Cynicism is humor in ill health."

"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it."

"Writing is hard work and bad for the health."

"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content."

"It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician."

"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted."

"Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing."

"There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset."

"We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America."

"We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them."

"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."

"We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans."

"So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place."

"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."

"According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen."

"Sobriety and health is the greatest thing."

"Health food makes me sick."

"Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good."

"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."

"I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country."

"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."

"A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health."

"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!"

"Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared."

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."

"Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say."

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."

"Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health."

"Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women."

"Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account."

"I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it."

"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."

"Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health."

"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."

"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound."

"We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"People use so much more health care when they live longer."

"We drink one another's health and spoil our own."

"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."

"My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health."

"I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps."

"America doesn't have health insurance."

"If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut."

"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."

"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors."

"In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision."

"Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable."

"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."

"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."

"Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics."

"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."

"We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city."

"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."

"You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out."

"Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him."

"Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective."

"Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation."

"My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health."

"I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have."

"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."

"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."

"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy."

"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."

"Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society."

"While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself."

"Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains."

"What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party."

"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."

"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."

"No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body."

"Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery."

"The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with."

"As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it."

"Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care."

"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."

"We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society."

"People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing."

"Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now."

"I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world."

"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!"

"As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society."

"I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health."

"Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional."

"I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service."

"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."

"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."

"The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital."

"I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health."

"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."

"Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview."

"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?"

"Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it."

"If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?"

"My health is very much improved."

"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."

"Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government."

"A woman's health is her capital."

"I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true."

"One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment."

"In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases."

"With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care."

"Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship."

"Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."

"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."

"Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self."

"Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind."

"The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known."

"Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health."

"The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk."

"It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines."

"I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is."

"As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere."

"I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent."

"I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."

"My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world."

"I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better."

"I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections."

"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."

"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."

"And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit."

"Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community."

"All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!"

"True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal."

"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."

"Lack of time is a real health killer."

"Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics."

"I think health is another exceedingly important thing."

"Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates."

"It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans."

"Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin."

"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."

"I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older."

"When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results."