3 December 2020 Lucille Roybal-Allard Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
3 December 2020 Candace Bushnell Like it or not, in the end, it’s one’s body. It’s literally what carries you through life. There’s a reason for the saying, ‘If you have your health, you have everything,’ and it’s true. Old age, disease – these are the great equalizers.
3 December 2020 L. Neil Smith City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
3 December 2020 Bill McCollum The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state’s sovereignty.
3 December 2020 Tab Hunter I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.
3 December 2020 Donald Berwick Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must – must – redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
3 December 2020 Abraham Maslow All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
3 December 2020 Warren Cuccurullo The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80’s.
3 December 2020 Christine Gregoire There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can’t provide health care to all its people.
3 December 2020 Paul Gillmor The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.
3 December 2020 Gro Harlem Brundtland That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
3 December 2020 James Earl Jones The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven’t gotten there yet.
3 December 2020 Bill Shuster It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
3 December 2020 Andrew Weil Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.
3 December 2020 Roy Ayers Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that’s one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I’m just telling you from my heart, I’m so in love with life.
3 December 2020 Gro Harlem Brundtland The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people’s basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.
3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie I’ve never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
3 December 2020 Jean Kerr The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
3 December 2020 David Limbaugh Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.
3 December 2020 Louise Slaughter For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option it is a basic health care necessity.
3 December 2020 Dick Wolf If you’re going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.
3 December 2020 Andrew Weil Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan 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.
