Steve Kagen quotes

“If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime,”
-- Steve Kagen

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“Disease does not recognize congressional districts or party affiliation.”
-- Steve Kagen

Source : "Kagen Introduces Bill To Save Wisconsin Family Medical Training". Public Statements, Project Vote Smart, June 27, 2007.

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“We have federal standards for everything in America except the one thing you need most - your health.”
-- Steve Kagen

Source : "Why I Declined My Congressional Health Coverage". www.dailykos.com. June 29, 2007.

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“If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.”
-- Steve Kagen

Source : "Problems We Face Together". Representative Steve Kagen, United States House of Representatives, July 21, 2007.

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“I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.”

“The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.”

“Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.”

Source : Abd-ru-shin (1998). “In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message”, p.4, Grail Foundation Press

“The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.”

Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 31, 1954.

“I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.”

Source : "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

“Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.”

“I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.”

“the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.”

“I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!”