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• After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California

  Jerry Brown

  Sex, Couple, Struggle

  "Federal appeals court is expected to wait on Prop. 8 action" by Maura Dolan, www.latimes.com. June 26, 2013.

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• It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

  William J. Clinton

  America, People, Population

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We found ourselves believing or allowing ourselves to believe what our industries told us, which is lead helps to guard your health was one of the ads that appeared in the 1920s. Lead takes place in modern games, lead is part of our everyday life, all these ads and propaganda that came out of the very time when physicians and public health workers and reports were appearing of children around the country who were literally at that point dying and going into convulsions because lead was poisoning them.

  David Rosner

  Country, Children, Believe

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

  Margaret Chan

  Impact, Events, Viruses

  Source: www.wbur.org

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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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• If we succeed in learning more about how to expand program innovations from pilot projects so that they have broader program impact, this should be very relevant for public health initiatives in Michigan and elsewhere in the US.

  Ruth Simmons

  Impact, Innovation, Pilots

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval, soul-shattering darkness if you don't let us do whatever the hell we want with the landscape and drinking water you public health, because there's no alternative."

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Drinking, Two, Light

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• In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.

  Michael Sandel

  Pregnancy, Eggs, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.

  Jill Stein

  Years, Vaccines, Movement

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Defense, Economic, Conservation

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• My colleagues from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education are working on participatory public health initiatives in Michigan, and there is much that we can learn from each other. In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

  Ruth Simmons

  Health Education, Effort, Intellectual

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain a focus on a 17th-century technology, when there are 21st-century alternatives that are both necessary and available? And the answer is the subversion of democracy.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Technology, Focus, Democracy

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• What I was saying back then was that we have a lot of public health costs that taxpayers end up paying for through Medicaid, Medicare, through uncompensated care, because that was in the context of the push for health care reform and that we needed some way to try to defray those costs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Trying, Care, Way

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

  Christopher Bond

  War, Iraq, America

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• The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

  Samuel Wilson

  Environmental Health, Should, Infrastructure

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• I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

  Steven Hatfill

  Country, Government, Effort

  "Scientist under scrutiny denies anthrax link". www.cnn.com. August 11, 2002.

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• Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As the criminology argument faded, gun control advocates began arguing guns were a public health problem.

  Steven Milloy

  Gun, Political, Research

  "Gun Control Science Misfires" by Steven Milloy, www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2002.

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• We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Silly, Animal, Agriculture

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• One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.

  Steven Johnson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Water

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• Gender, race, ethnicity - these are all morally neutral. But homosexuality is - involves voluntary sexual conduct with serious public health, social, sociological implications. It's not irrational to discriminate on that basis.

  Scott Lively

  Race, Ethnicity, Serious

  "Uganda Punishing Gays: 'Sodomy Is Not A Human Right' Says Evangelical Leader". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts

  Widad Akrawi

  Country, Military, Effort

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• Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

  Widad Akrawi

  Country, War, Profound

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• The whole idea of what is evidence for causation in epidemiology cannot be separated from tTindustry understood that if they could raise doubt about how you could conclude something caused cancer, that they put so much effort into getting so many receptive public health authorities to say, "Well, causation requires that these five things be met." So that is, in fact, nonsense.

  Devra Davis

  Cancer, Epidemiology, Ideas

  Source: www.salon.com

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• [If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Kids, School, Libertarian

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.

  Michael Marmot

  People, Emergencies, Throwing

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