Health quotes

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.

Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of.

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.

The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.