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" We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

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" Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge. "

" Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor. "

" A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support. "

" You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong. "

" Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on. "

" I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. "

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

" The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of the suffering. "

" Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It's about statism. It's about expanding the government. It's about control over the population. It is about everything but health care. "

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

" In the political confusion and the torrid heat, I convinced myself that Madrid was the world's stomach and that I had been chosen for the task of restoring this digestive organ to health. "

Leonora Carrington

" If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow. "

" When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom. If you fall ill in prison, you do not think about freedom - you think about health. Health is, therefore, more important than freedom. "

Alija Izetbegovic

" I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy. "

" The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time. "

" Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly bully and cajole. But we must do it. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme. "

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

Eddie Bernice Johnson

" Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health. "

Jane Velez-Mitchell

" To be clear, I don't know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity as the tobacco industry. We don't have enough information to make that conclusion. Perhaps it's all smoke and no fire. But there's an awful lot of smoke. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

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

Abraham Verghese

" I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents. "

Francis Collins

" 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. "

" One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep. "

" If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. "

" I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile. "

" Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. "

" In the international contest of ideologies, it is not assured that ours will win; we have to earn the winner's laurel generation by generation. One way we earn it is by living our values as the world watches. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health. "