“What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.” TryingPersonsSelfSeemsGovernmentEffortRolesHealthCitizensCostEssentialsEternalObviousHarmDefenseListsPrioritiesGermsFacilitateAvailability Author:Keith Olbermann
“I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment's pain.” MenWorldWantLongMomentsPainGivenGoneHealthCitizensCircumstancesFellowsBlessedAffectionEsteemAcknowledgeReasonableFewerPortionsComplaintsAfflictionHonoredWant UCompetenceLong LifeUsefulness Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.” WholeGovernmentCareIndividualForeverHealthCitizensFolksMedicalHealth CareBudgetsSchemesItemsExpendituresInsidious Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.” ChoicesOpportunityHealthCitizensTaxesExcellenceHealth CareAffordable Author:Mitt Romney
“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.” GivingYearsCareAmericaSimpleConditionsHealthDependsCitizensHealthyDrugDiseaseToolsTreatsManagementLifestyleHealth CareTherapyDietsUsaExpensiveTreatmentManifestHealthcareHealthy LivingPhysiciansSurgeryHealthy LifestyleTherapeuticHealth Care SystemAlternative MedicineManagement Systems Author:Andrew Weil
“A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.” WayWantChildrenCareSituationPovertyMillionsSocietyHealthCitizensTerribleOur ChildrenCancerVulnerableAshamedJudgedEnding PovertyRectifyHunger Poverty Author:Marlo Thomas
“We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.” WorldChildrenEarthResponsibilityGenerationsHealthCitizensFutureOur ChildrenObligationCitizenshipBetter PlaceFuture GenerationCleanersWorld Citizen Author:Blythe Danner
“Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.” WellsUseBornHealthCitizensSickKingdomsSpellsSooner Or LaterCitizenshipObligedPassportsGet Well SoonDual Citizenship Author:Susan Sontag
“Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.” CareHealthCitizensCostConstitutionPrisonMedicalPrisonerAdequateCoverageMedical CareHealth Coverage Author:Jim Riley
“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.... We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father—a noble, pious man.” ThinkingMenHeartCarePassionFatherEffortEmotionWatchesVirtueStrangeHealthCitizensMoralityHusbandJudgmentMy FriendsSlaveIntellectNobleDietsContentmentRighteousnessStomachOrgansReignDominationPiousGood CitizenLoving Husband Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1 Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1
“Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.” LifeMotivationalSpiritualFaithHumanityHopeChangeWorkCitiesEnvironmentAdvicePositive ThinkingHealthWise WordsCitizensEncouragementChristian LifeUpliftingPositive AttitudePollutionWisdom Of Lailah Gifty AkitaBehaviourNationCleanlinessHealthy LifePlacesAfricanCommunity ServiceGhanaEnvironmental DegradationEnvironmental ValuesUncleanRecyclePositive ActionEnvironmental LawClean HomesPlastic WasteDomestic ValuesEcological ValuesEnvironmental Activities Book:Think Great: Be Great! Source: Think Great: Be Great!