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" Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot. "

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" America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable. "

" Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination. "

" I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything. "

" I don't think you can measure wealth in dollars and cents. I really don't believe that at all because there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is health. And the other is security in your relationships and friends. "

" It is important to remember the purpose of health care reform: to make sure Americans have access to quality, affordable health care - especially those individuals who were being denied by their insurance companies because they weren't profitable customers. "

" It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience. "

Bernadette Peters

" Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges. "

" I think public sector workers, our teachers, our firefighters, our home health workers who work for states, they do God's work. They are some of our most important employees. "

" True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life. "

Maximillian Degenerez

" When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. "

" Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports. "

" 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. "

Charles Caleb Colton

" When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships. "

" I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals. "

" In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America. "

" Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment. "

" People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something. "

Theodore Zeldin

" In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.' "

" Nurses are on the front lines of our care. And they need to be at the foundation of health care reform. Let's get health care done - and done right - by ensuring the amount of nurses we need to provide quality care for all. "

Kirsten Gillibrand

" Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box. "

" I actually lost both my legs. I can walk because I got really good health care. "

Tammy Duckworth

" Health is not valued till sickness comes. "

" The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health. "

Andrew J. Bernstein

" Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade. "

" What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit. "

" Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue. "

" The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease. "

" Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance. "

Alexandra Petri

" If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed. "

" The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician. "

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