Health

Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women. – Mark Dayton

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account. – Anne Wilson Schaef

The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies. – Simon Mainwaring

My health is fine. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system. – Nathan Deal

Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional. – Ron Fournier

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. – Plautus

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health. – M. Scott Peck

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul. – John B. S. Haldane

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. – Ashley Montagu

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment. – Muhammad Iqbal

People use so much more health care when they live longer. – Michael Bloomberg

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable. – Elizabeth Edwards

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. – Laurence Sterne

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing. – Calvin Klein

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city. – Michael Bloomberg

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. – Herbert Spencer

Obama is capable – as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him. – Ron Fournier

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation. – Carl Levin

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health. – Maurice Sendak