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Health Quotes


"One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage."


"A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock."


"I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while."


"Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination."


"We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure."


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


"A major difference between witches and psychotherapists is that witches see the mental health of women as having important political consequences."


"The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure."


"It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing."


"What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?"


"I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide."


"While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet."


"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."


"As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation."


"Gratefulness leads to good health and happy life."


"I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism."


"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."


"A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users."


"Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status."


"We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress."


"In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care."


"This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption."


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


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


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


"Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation."


"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer."


"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."


"There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people."


"I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care."


"While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease."


"When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack."


"What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I."


"Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions."


"Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction."


"I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon."


"As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy."


"Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system."


"What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be."
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