Quality Health Care Quotes

• Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

  Bill Gates

  Strong, Opportunity, Discovery

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Mean, Quality, Tools

  "It’s Time to Put Affordable Health Care for the Poor Within Reach" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2009.

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• We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Quality, Needs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

  Ed Pastor

  Issues, Important, Quality

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• Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

  Max Baucus

  Quality, Care, Affordable

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• As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a matter of principle, we believe nothing should interfere with that doctor-patient relationship. As a matter of principle, we believe all Americans deserve affordable, available, and reliable quality health care.

  Bill Frist

  Believe, Doctors, Quality

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• Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

  Nancy Johnson

  Children, America, Quality

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• Look at other countries that have tried to have federally controlled health care. They have poor-quality health care. Our health-care system is the envy of the world because we believe in making sure that the decisions are made by doctors and patients, not by officials in the nation's capital.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Believe, Doctors

  Third Presidential Debate at Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz, www.washingtonpost.com. October 13, 2004.

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• We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Quality, Care, Available

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974”, p.49, Best Books on

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• There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to encourage small business, to encourage ownership, to expand access to quality health care, to enhance opportunity by making higher education more affordable to American's young people, to have our children live in safe neighborhoods, drug-free, crime-free, and a safe and clean environment, first and foremost to provide for the national defense, to protect and defend the American people, and to have accountability for our budget and for our spending.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Children, Party

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

  Dick Durbin

  Giving, Quality, Vets

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• Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care, punish unions, demonize public servants, raise college tuition, and produce a harsh world of joblessness - all the while giving billions and huge bonuses, instead of prison sentences... to those bankers and investment brokers who were responsible for the 2008 meltdown of the economy and the loss of homes for millions of Americans.

  Henry Giroux

  Home, Loss, College

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Children, Educational, Opportunity

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• As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Believe, Men

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders: 'Vermont stands a chance to be the first state in the nation to pass single-payer'". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2010.

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• The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Quality, Hazards, Care

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• We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize itself, focus on tomorrow and provide comprehensive, quality health care with minimal outside help.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Practice, Focus

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• Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  "House Divided: Kucinich Delegates Block Kerry From Receiving Unanimous Nomination". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 29, 2004.

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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

  Health, Opportunity, Obamacare

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

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• Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

  Rahm Emanuel

  President, Quality, Care

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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