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I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

Quotes by Paul Krugman

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

Quotes by Paul Hawken

When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on...

Quotes by Paul Hawken

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

Quotes by Paul Gillmor

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

Quotes by 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.

Quotes by Paul Gillmor

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Quotes by Paul Farmer

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

Quotes by Paul Farmer

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

Quotes by Paul Farmer

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is...

Quotes by Paul Farmer

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This...

Quotes by Paul Farmer

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.

Quotes by Paul Farmer

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

Quotes by Paul Farmer

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

Quotes by Paul Farmer

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

Quotes by Paul Farmer

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

Quotes by Paul Farmer

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...

Quotes by Paul Farmer

I don't know much about climate change. But I'm pretty sure we better figure out what to do to lessen its impact - at least its health impact - and that's not going to happen unless you have a lot...

Quotes by Paul Farmer

The cellphone is humanity's biggest platform. If we can't use it to change education or health care, then shame on us.

Quotes by Paul E. Jacobs

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

Frequently Asked Questions

What different meanings of 'health' appear in these quotes?
They range from the personal experience of being a caregiver, to mental health through running, to a metaphor about measuring a society's health, to a policy statement about health care coverage.
Is there a quote from a caregiver's perspective?
Yes. One speaker describes spending "a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members," which gave them a perspective on the struggles many New Yorkers face with illness and disability. For more reflective quotes, see Suvichar quotes.
Is there a quote about running for mental health?
Yes - one speaker says, "I've run my whole life" for more than exercise - specifically "for mental health." For more short, quotable lines, browse Anmol Vachan quotes.
Is there a quote about measuring the health of a society?
Yes. One quote uses a bridge metaphor, noting that a bridge's carrying power comes from "the strength of the weakest pillar," before stating a belief that "you do not measure the health of a society by GNP." For more thought-provoking lines, see Slogans quotes.
Is there a quote about health care policy?
Yes - one quote calls for "a common sense approach that provides health care coverage to all Americans," describing it as the speaker's own view of the best way forward. For more on this and related topics, see Change quotes.

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