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Health Quotes


"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."


"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."


"It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East."


"We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone."


"A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison."


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


"Very high altitude observatories are a known worker health hazard."


"Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses."


"The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves."


"The bottom line to this is, there are few doctors who have any expertise in chemical exposure."


"Boundaries and risk management are very important parts of living a healthy and positive life."


"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."


"There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it."


"I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are."


"Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services."


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


"Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get."


"If you don't want me to attend the patient I'll go.''But she can't see a doctor now.''Why not?''She isn't well."


"Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance."


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



"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?"



"Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also."


"When you are well, your own body is a sealed country into which you need not explore far, but when you are unwell, there is no denying that you are made up of organs and fluids and chemistry and that the mechanisms by which your body operates are not invincible."


"When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again."


"When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically strong in the first day or two after the electromagnetic field (EMF) exposures and tail off as the week goes on. I would feel fine during the EMF exposures and start seeing weird health effects usually during sleep that night. Extended time around high voltage power lines & power poles were the worst for provoking reactions, followed by wifi and transmitting utility meters."



"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."


"Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care."


"I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians."


"What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country."


"The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do."


"I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care."


"Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well."


"Always walk as if you're running late, it's healthier."


"When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike."


"I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase."
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