Health Quotes - Page 38

• Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jail, Tears, Doe

  "Hillary Clinton: America must confront 'hard truths about race and justice'", www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2015.

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• This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Stronger, Sovereignty

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• Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.

  Ingrid Weir

  Fighting, Alive, Faces

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• I don't know about you, but I'm betting that when it comes to doing the right and good thing, the Little Sisters of the Poor know better than the regulators at the Department of Health and Human Services.

  Jeb Bush

  Little Sister, Littles, Poor

  "JEB: 'no more powerful ... influence on this earth than the Christian conscience in action' - BRADY may miss 6-8 games -- B'DAY: Dana P". Politico Playbook, www.politico.com. May 09, 2015.

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• Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

  Pope Francis

  Soccer, Country, Peace

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• There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

  Perry Brass

  Life, Happiness, Jobs

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.29, Perry Brass

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• Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Loss, Thinking

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• We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it's so important to render its structures more efficient.

  Angela Merkel

  Past, Organization, Issues

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• If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit.

  Michael Lind

  Education, Jobs, School

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• If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.

  Calvin Jillson

  Education, Texas, White

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• We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Education, Country, Thinking

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• Our challenge, our opportunity is to pass common-sense solutions ... that repeal ObamaCare and replace it with patient-centered reforms that will help our constituents have better access to high-quality health care in America.

  John Boehner

  Opportunity, Obamacare, America

  "Republicans start small on ObamaCare, cross fingers for court intervention" by Joseph Weber, www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2015.

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• The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.

  David Cameron

  Jobs, Party, Hard Work

  "Cameron challenged on Labour claim". www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. March 30, 2015.

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• The aspiration of society is the flourishing of its members, this report gives evidence on how to achieve societal well?being. It's not by money alone, but also by fairness, honesty, trust and good health.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Honesty, Giving, Fairness

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• I mean, you've got to protect human health beyond everything, and so we think eliminating shared-use antibiotics is the right way to go.

  Craig Wilson

  Mean, Thinking, Use

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• I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

  Michael Graves

  Nuts, Care, Paralysis

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• No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

  Nancy Northup

  Audacity, Delay, Care

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• There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences.

  Geeta Rao Gupta

  People, Pakistan, Toilets

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• We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value.

  Steve Miller

  Benefits, Bullish, Values

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• We do know that a percentage of LGBT people avoid and delay screening and care because of fear about or experience of stigma, discrimination or simply lack of knowledge about LGBT people and their health amongst providers. If you avoid or delay screening and care and you have an issue that may be precancerous, by the time you get into screening and care you’re there because it has become acute and you already have a progressed disease.

  Barbara Warren

  Issues, People, Delay

  "Experts Sound off On Why LGBT Health Concerns Need Special Attention" by Andrew M. Seaman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2015.

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• We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.

  Babatunde Osotimehin

  Girl, Impact, Profound

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• When health workers are infected at work, this puts other healthcare workers at risk, but also can be a risk to all other patients, understanding where the breach in these measures is occurring and taking the steps needed to fully implement infection prevention and control measures can put an end to these ... infections.

  Keiji Fukuda

  Understanding, Risk, Prevention

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• I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.

  Larry King

  Feel Better, Endurance, Energy

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• You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.

  Seth

  Loneliness, Reality, Giving

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• Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

  James Redfield

  Attitude, Illness, Recuperation

  James Redfield (2009). “Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight”, p.163, Hachette UK

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