Health Quotes

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Health and education are always issues.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families.