Health quotes

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.