Health Quotes

Dick Cheney and Al Gore have redefined the role of the vice president in the minds of the public. It should be a big job, beyond simply checking the health status of the president.

Chuck Todd

I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.

Cornel Wilde

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

Daniel Akaka

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.

David Agus

I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.

David Agus

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

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

Diane Abbott

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

Diane Ackerman

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

Daniel Baldwin

If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care cos...

Dave Brat

I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don't take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon....

David Alan Basche

Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from...

David Blunkett

Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can k...

David D. Burns

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.

David K. E. Bruce

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.

Donald Berwick

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people...

Donald Berwick

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whethe...

Donald Berwick

As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

Diana DeGette

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

Diana DeGette

If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to f...

Dick Durbin

We will have health care reform in America.

Dick Durbin