Pharmaceutical Quotes - Page 3

• The whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science and drumming it into the minds of gullible people who have no curiosity to find out why that is so.

  Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

  Medicine, People, Curiosity

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• From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Army, Gdp

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• As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

  Bill Gates

  Weed, Marijuana, Choices

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• Wake up, America. The insurance companies took over health care. Wake up, America. The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing. Wake up, America. The speculators took over Wall Street. Wake up, America. They want to take your Social Security. Wake up, America. Multinational corporations took over our trade policies, factories are closing, good paying jobs lost. Wake up, America. We went into Iraq for oil.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Wall, Oil, Iraq

  Dennis Kucinich's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.

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• the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Eras, Century, Late

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Deadeye Dick”, Delacorte Press

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• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  Carl Lewis

  Senior, Home, Kids

  "Carl Lewis's run for political office gets off to a rocky start" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2011.

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• The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

  Al Franken

  Drug, Pieces, Might

  "If You Ever Wonder Whether We Really Need Public Financing of Elections in this Country" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2007.

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• You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk – that’s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the air, a society’s collective health, and even our collective pharmaceutical resources at risk. That’s my business. That’s everyone’s business.

  Howard Lyman

  Animal, Air, Land

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• Michael Moore announced that his next documentary film will attack the health care industry in America. He's not out to get the pharmaceutical companies. He's just looking for something to relieve the redness in the center of the country.

  Argus Hamilton

  Country, America, Care

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• If you look at the expenses of a great pharmaceutical company, they pay between about 10 to 15 percent of their expenses for research, but they use 30 to 40 percent of their incomes for marketing and promotion. It is not completely wrong that they spend so much, but it is not correct to say that there is a direct connection between the price of drugs and the cost of research. It could be more between the cost of marketing and the cost of the drugs.

  Pascal Couchepin

  Drug, Marketing, Promotion

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. October 30, 2007.

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• It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in terms of profits and my country recently went to war due to oil pricing. What does that say they will do to keep this other industry in tact? It is up to patients and their families to question what they are being given, and to consumers to demand better, more natural alternatives.

  Margot Kidder

  Country, War, Government

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• Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.

  Stephen Fry

  Exercise, Bipolar, Mindfulness

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• The quality of the medical care delivered, including the pharmaceutical industry, has improved a lot. I don't think it's crazy for a rich country like the USto spend 15% of GDP on healthcare, and if it rose to 16-17%, it's not a big worry.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Crazy, Thinking

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• Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who have a vested interest in the drug industry fuels this propaganda.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Drug, Fuel, Want

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• In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.

  Adrienne Rich

  Determination, Children, Ignorance

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• Front end loading with appropriate resources provided time to reflect and produce needed changes and alignment around the C&Q approach.

  Robert A. Young

  Ends, Resources, Produce

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• Using the risk-based approach presented by the ISPE Guide (i.e., system and component level classification) limited qualification activities to verifying and testing critical aspects of direct impact systems and their critical components.

  Robert A. Young

  Impact, Risk, Levels

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• In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer.

  Vernon Coleman

  Powerful, Independent, Medicine

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• Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.

  Pierre Bosquet

  Health, Doctors, Medicine

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• Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.

  James Morcan

  Mean, Medicine, People

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• The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health.

  Robert Jarvik

  Understanding, Important, United States

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• [There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

  James Black

  Optimistic, Science, Vision

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• For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

  Paul A. Offit

  Mother, Thinking, Erosion

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

  Neal Boortz

  Doctors, Government, Cost

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• American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

  Gerald Celente

  War, People, Fake

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