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Health Quotes


"For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."


"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."


"I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside."


"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."


"The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness."


"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."


"Investing in health will produce enormous benefits."


"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."



"It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not."


"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."


"To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise."


"There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world."


"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."


"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."


"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."


"We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan."


"I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate."


"Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room."


"In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization."


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


"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."


"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."


"America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it."


"The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care."


"The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed."



"I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here."


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


"You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do."



"We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury."


"Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance."


"Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons."


"We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that's best for them and meets their specific needs."


"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."


"I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment."


"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."
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