Pharmaceutical Quotes - Page 4

• It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Death, White, Forever

  "The Death of American Exceptionalism - and of Me" by Lewis Lapham, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2013.

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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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• 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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• I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.

  Michael Specter

  Pennies, Accepting, Pharmaceutical Companies

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be able to help but I don't see this as the opportunity, having done 'Extraordinary measures', for me to suddenly leap on a soap box and begin to talk about the pharmaceutical industry or the desperate plight of sick children. I do what I can in my world but I don't have the bona fides to do that right now.

  Harrison Ford

  Children, Opportunity, Sick

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.

  Jack Herer

  Beer, Marijuana, Body

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• If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.

  Deepak Chopra

  Military, Gmo Foods, Gmos

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

  David Mixner

  Dollars, Hiv, Cost

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• If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the good-paying jobs are, China is not letting them in unless China gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that`s 51 percent owned by the Chinese.

  Charles Schumer

  Jobs, America, Intellectual

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently.

  Dennis Prager

  Discovery, Average, Law

  "A Society that Venerates Lawyers More than Doctors". jewishworldreview.com. November 3, 2009.

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• MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

  Douglas Coupland

  School, Twenties, Inability

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy middle-aged men out there lusting for your kids. They work for MTV, the pharmaceutical industry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K Street.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Men, Mcdonalds

  "Real Time with Bill Maher",

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• Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.

  Richard Schickel

  Children, Character, Wife

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• In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that we hadn't been able to solve with the conventional approach of mainstream pharmaceutical companies.

  Clayton Christensen

  Technology, Able, Way

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.

  Hal Holbrook

  Government, Lobbyists, Salary

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Government, Drug

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• I want to go after the pharmaceutical companies like Valeant, and Turns that are increasing prices without any regard to the impact on people's health.

  Hillary Clinton

  Impact, People, Want

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I think the entire pharmaceutical industry has a lot of work to do to restore public trust.

  Kenneth C. Frazier

  Thinking, Industry, Public Trust

  "Big Pharma's Delicate Dance on Drug Prices". Interview with Peter Loftus, www.wsj.com. February 21, 2016.

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• And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make?

  Elton John

  World, Want, Like You

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?

  Regina King

  Character, White, Doe

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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• The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates a situation where common practices that have been part of people's lives for generations become monopolies of a handful of pharmaceutical, agribusiness and agrichemical corporations. People then become incapable of looking after their own needs.

  Vandana Shiva

  Real, Practice, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.

  James Hillman

  Hard Work, People, Political

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• In my view, this is not extremism on the left. This is what the American people support in poll after poll. Support the right to a job. Support living wages. Support real climate action. Support small community-based banks that make loans available to every day people and small businesses, not these too-big-to-fail banks that rip us off, that crash the economy at taxpayer expense. Support a public-option healthcare system, not Obamacare, which has been a boondoggle for insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Rip, Real

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• In a large pharmaceutical company, where it's a big bet, you're going to need finance people to be involved in the decision-making because the investment can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. You're going to have to run scenarios. You might even need agreement from the C.E.O. to make that type of decision. If it's an incremental, low-cost decision in a marketing-oriented company, it may be a very different set of stakeholders a lot further down in the organization.

  John Kao

  Running, Organization, Agreement

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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