Health Problems Quotes - Page 2

• With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

  Arthur Caplan

  Suicide, Fate, Science

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• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Country, Government, Upset

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• That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

  Lois Capps

  Energy, Climate, Pandemics

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• 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.

  Jim Ramstad

  Aggravation, Numbers, People

  United States of America Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress First Session Vol 145- Part 10, p. 14054, June 1999.

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• Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Jail, People

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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• I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.

  Mary J. Blige

  Quality, Problem, Quality Of Life

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2010.

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• 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.

  Mark Dayton

  Cutting, Men, Iraq

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• Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Educational, Birth Defects

  "Preventable Hunger in Our Land of Plenty" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2013.

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• The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems.

  John M. McHugh

  Troops, Care, Study

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• For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Couple, Stories, Saws

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• We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Taken, Victory

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• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  Larry Elder

  War, Home, Fire

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

  Helen Reddy

  Yoga, Giving, Problem

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• I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. The more books you read, the more likely one of them will have an answer to a question that could solve the major problems of your life.. make you wealthier, solve a health problem, whatever it might be.

  Jack Canfield

  Spiritual, Book, Law

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• When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast
  expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result.
  There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social
  programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty,
  drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Marriage, Pregnancy, School

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• Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Health, Bipolar, Three

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• Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Believe, Bills

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• The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents are unable to function effectively in the parenting role show more anxiety and depression, as well as sleep and health problems, than those whose parents have a strong support network and solid inner resources to rely on.

  Hope Edelman

  Strong, Children, Sleep

  Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it. But a lot of people can't handle it. And they see horror stories. They see events that you couldn't see in a movie, nobody would believe it.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, War, Believe

  "Veterans Advocate Fires Back at Donald Trump's PTSD Comments: "It's a Teachable Moment" by Peter Flax, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I have always liked working "upstream" long before health problems hit the body.

  Christiane Northrup

  Long, Body, Problem

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of time it takes for the damage done by that to wash through our society and our communities, the disadvantages born out of kids being undiagnosed with mental-health problems early, or not getting the kind of exposure to reading and math when they're 4 or 5 or 6 years old, that carries a cost.

  Barack Obama

  Reading, Kids, Math

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• According to the CDC, more than one in three women and one in four men in the United States have been victims of domestic violence. It is a widespread public health problem, and every year 1,600 women and 700 men are killed by their intimate partners. One of the biggest risk factors that domestic violence will become fatal is the presence of a gun.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Gun, Men, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think one of the big problems we have got - and police tell me this - is most police don't know how to deal with mental health problems. And so we need better mental health response.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Police, Needs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue.

  Bill Richardson

  Mother Daughter, Men, Issues

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• I will help women, because we have the women's health problems. We have a lot of problems.

  Donald Trump

  Women's Health, Helping, Problem

  "Donald Trump’s interview with Bill O’Reilly was an instant classic". www.washingtonpost.com. September 20, 2016.

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