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

Abraham Verghese

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" The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off. "

" The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change. "

" Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul. "

George A. Smith

" Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities. "

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

" Sleeping on people's floors when you're 22 is fine. But when you get your life in order and have a family you want to keep and a certain level of health, touring bigger means you can keep going for longer. "

" We need commonsense measures, gun control measures, that save lives. I think that it is important that we keep the firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill and criminals and terrorists. And I also think, by strengthening our background check system and expanding mental health treatment, we can do that as well. "

Catherine Cortez-Masto

" It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level. "

Elizabeth Holmes

" We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care. "

" Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation. "

" I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency. "

" Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance. "

Charles Boustany

" One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society. "

" It is very important that we take care of our health. "

" A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. "

" I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem. "

" Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers. "

Olivia Newton-John

" The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. "

Eddie Bernice Johnson

" The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. "

" The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. "

" Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system. "

" You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters. "

Courtney Thorne-Smith

" In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. "

" Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it. "

" No one had ever educated me on mental health. I really didn't understand why I would be feeling high on life, and everything was brilliant, and then suddenly I would be crashing into a deep hole. "

" Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. "

" Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level. "

" We need to modernize an outdated agency, bring it into the 21st century, and ensure that the VA is better equipped to treat the health and psychological issues that are unique to our veterans. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

" Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion. "

" Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. "