Health Issues Quotes:

In the middle of Hillary Clinton's push for national healthcare in 1993, Bill Clinton cited Thomas Jefferson's concern for health issues as, somehow, apparently indicative of a need for federal management of the nation's healthcare system.

- Paul Kengor

topic: Issues, Needs, Bills, Health Issues

Handguns are a public health issue.

- Joycelyn Elders

topic: Issues, Public Health, Handguns, Health Issues

It's hard to fully enjoy your time on Earth without having your health. Ask anyone battling health issues - most especially, issues that could have been avoided. For me, I read food labels, I seek out places to purchase the best-quality foods available to me, and I inquire about how they are produced (meats and fruits/vegetables).

- Adam Rodriguez

source: "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez On Reading Food Labels, Three Phrases to Live By, to Win for Love, Forward Thinking, and How We’re All in This Together". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.

topic: Vegetables, Issues, Quality, Time On Earth, Health Issues

I want people to feel inspired to reach out and be inclusive and supportive of others in their community who might be facing any kind of challenge, whether it is a health issue or a disability.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Issues, People, Community, Health Issues

I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.

- Bethany Cosentino

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Issues, Support, Causes, Reproductive Health, Health Issues

I understand that I have many, many friends who are women who understand Planned Parenthood better than you or I will ever understand it. And they do some very good work. Cervical cancer, lots of women's issues, women's health issues are taken care of. I know one of the candidates, I won't mention names, said, "We're not going to spend that kind of money on women's health issues." I am. Planned Parenthood does a really good job at a lot of different areas. But not on abortion. So I'm not going to fund it if it's doing the abortion.

- Donald Trump

source: "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

topic: Jobs, Cancer, Taken, Cervical Cancer, Women's Health

They [Federal Goverment] don't care if I am guilty or innocent. I serve their purpose in here. Other than what I have mentioned, what fear could they possibly have from a old man with dimming eyesight, arthritis, diabetes, and other health issues that render me hardly a threat to anyone.

- Leonard Peltier

source: Source: montanapioneer.com

topic: Health Issues

Democrats will say the money they give to Planned Parenthood does not go to abortions. That the money they give to Planned Parenthood only goes to other women's health issues, including mammograms and things like that.

- Chuck Todd

source: "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

topic: Issues, Giving, Abortion, Mammograms, Women's Health

Homicide, often involving guns, is a disease that is the leading cause of death for young black men, and the second-leading cause of death for all people aged fifteen to twenty-four. That makes it the leading health issue, particularly when guns are used in combination with drugs and alcohol. And the statistics show that is most often the case.

- Joycelyn Elders

source: "Surgeon General’s Warning". Interview with Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

topic: Gun, Men, Issues, Leading Causes, Involving

See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, and even your body to go in terms of overcoming addictions and dealing with weight and health issues.

- Wayne Dyer

source: "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

topic: Issues, Overcoming Addiction, Weight, Health Issues

Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and paid a professional price for it. Behind the scenes, she struggled in a fractious, sometimes violent relationship with her husband and manager and with mental health issues that strained other relationships, including with her only daughter.

- Michel Martin

source: "Nina Simone's Daughter Says This Film Gets Her Mom's Story Straight". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

topic: Daughter, Powerful, Husband, Only Daughter, Pianist

My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down or diagnose. And like many, if not most, writers I had the self-consciousness to recognize it made great conditions for writing.

- Gregory Pardlo

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Bullying, Writing, Emotional, Drafting, Emotional Health

When you need a lifestyle change due to [health issues], a dietary change is usually the first thing you need to take control of.

- Mark Spitz

source: Interview with Tim Cheung, hk.asiatatler.com. September 10, 2012.

topic: Lifestyle Change, Health Issues

Movember is an event that I've supported for a number of years. I haven't grown a moustache myself before, but I've always donated to others. I think that raising awareness for men's health is really important. You see a lot of initiatives - very public initiatives - around women's health, like breast cancer awareness and the like, but men's health issues tend to go more unnoticed. I think this is a great cause and I'm proud to support it.

- James Magnussen

source: "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.

topic: Cancer, Men, Thinking, Cancer Awareness, Women's Health

It can be seen as 'weak' to complain about health issues or worry about your health. But with younger guys, I think it's just a case of it being a secondary thought. We live pretty busy lifestyles these days. People have got work and social lives, and they party and spend a lot of time doing other things, and health just takes a backseat in a lot of cases. That's just the way a lot of people seem to live their lives.

- James Magnussen

source: "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.

topic: Party, Thinking, Issues, Health Issues

I think everyone's had a brother or a father or a cousin, uncle or grandfather who's had health issues because they've neglected things. I think that's almost been part of Australian culture, which is why I think Movember is really important. We need to change that outlook.

- James Magnussen

source: "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.

topic: Cousin, Brother, Uncles, Australian Culture, Health Issues

About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.

- Richard Branson

topic: Organization, Issues, Benefits, Health Issues

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

- Jeb Bush

source: "Jeb Bush's Planned Parenthood jab backfires" By Eric Bradner, Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. August 5, 2015.

topic: Issues, Dollars, Needs, Women's Health, Health Issues

I only wish my health issues to be open to the public in the hope that I can educate others.

- Renee Sloan

topic: Issues, Wish, Educate, Health Issues

I've obviously come from a health background. I was a doctor before I became a pollie and one of the things I'd like to do is to really build on the world-class health system we've got. I'm passionate about climate change because it's also a health issue. Things like extreme weather impact on people's health, the ability of our hospitals to cope, the impact on mental health, on farmers in regional areas - they're all serious health concerns.

- Richard Di Natale

topic: Class, Weather, Issues, Extreme Weather, Health Issues

We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it's so important to render its structures more efficient.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Health, Past, Organization, Global Health, Health Issues

Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.

- Michael Specter

source: Source: www.newyorker.com

topic: New York, Children, School, Vaccinations, Schoolmates

I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world.

- Bill Gates

topic: Thinking, Issues, People, Highlighting, Global Health

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

- Jeffrey Kluger

topic: Sports, Suicide, Football, Dementia, Criminal Behavior

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

- Mandy Patinkin

topic: Gun, Issues, Organization, Public Health, Gun Safety

[Lighting a cigarette] Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce something to a moral issue, it has no place in any kind of legislation, as far as I'm concerned.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Issues, Rights, Smoking, Moral Issues, Health Issues

Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.

- Hossein Malek-Afzali

topic: Religious, Issues, Iran, Reproductive Health, Health Issues

HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.

- Kofi Annan

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Issues, Hiv, Development, Health Issues

A huge amount of what feminists are fighting for would have major positive impact for men as well as women. Take the male suicide rate, for example. In part, the problem arises from the idea that men are tough and manly, that 'boys don't cry' and it's embarrassing for them to talk about their feelings. So men are less likely to reach out for help and support with mental health issues. But that gender stereotype, which exists alongside the converse notion that women are over-emotional, 'hysterical', or 'hormonal', is one feminists are fighting hard to debunk.

- Laura Bates

topic: Suicide, Fighting, Men, Help And Support, Fighting Hard

Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.

- Zainab Salbi

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: War, Moving, Healing, Armed Conflict, Health Issues

Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

- Michael K. Williams

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Issues, Addiction, Crime, Social Issues, Health Issues

Of course the issue of ending war, and creating prosperity; they're overarching issues all the time. But right now, the challenge to this generation I believe is the climate crisis. It's a national security issue, it's a health issue in terms of clean air, it's a competitiveness issue in terms of innovation and it's a moral issue to preserve the planet for the next generation.

- Nancy Pelosi

source: Source: blog.sfgate.com

topic: War, Believe, Air, Moral Issues, Clean Air

I was lucky. My children didn't have health issues, didn't have big school problems, etc. And as I watched some of my peers go through this, you can see how quickly a family can get derailed when they are not lucky.

- Sallie Krawcheck

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Health Issues

How can you begin to uncover whether gluten sensitivity is causing some of your health issues? Symptoms occur shortly after eating gluten and improve or disappear within hours or days after gluten is withdrawn. Symptoms return again if gluten is reintroduced.

- Kris Carr

topic: Issues, Gluten, Return, Health Issues

Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.

- Stephen Fry

topic: Ignorance, Issues, Community, Blight, Stigma

I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.

- Robin Quivers

source: "Meatless Monday — The Vegucation of Robin Quivers" by Ellen Kanner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Issues, Health Issues

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

- Natalie Imbruglia

topic: Issues, People, Looks, Health Issues

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

- David Boreanaz

topic: Children, Growing Up, Dad, Charity Work, Health Issues

I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them no why I've been absent. I'm torn as I'm quite private. I'm not feeling well. I'm having some health issues. So please keep me in your prayers.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Prayer, Issues, Feelings, Health Issues, Not Feeling Well

When you help someone through a health issue, positively impact someone's personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender life-bonding loyalty.

- Keith Ferrazzi

source: Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.177, Crown Business

topic: Loyalty, Children, Impact, Personal Wealth, Health Issues

If I never had any mental health issues, there's no doubt in my mind I'd still be playing,

- Mardy Fish

topic: Issues, Doubt, Mind, Health Issues

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

- Rick Majerus

topic: Reality, Issues, Woe, Woe Is Me, Pleasant Things

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

- Toni Braxton

topic: Girl, Kids, Issues, Health Issues

When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.

- Sarah Hyland

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Summer, Children, Kids, Kidney Disease, Summer Camp

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

- Mike White

topic: Buddhist, Yoga, Book, Self Help Books, Health Issues

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

- Jay Inslee

topic: Thinking, Issues, People, Clean Water, Health Issues

The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have applied them for decades and it's got the prisons filled with lots of young people who sometimes come out destroyed for having half an ounce... We should approach it through education and health issues rather than a brutal reaction... There is need for change in policy, but it has to start with debate and discussion... I think the whole approach has to be reviewed.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Marijuana, Thinking, Law, Reports, Health Issues

Many children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.

- Irwin Redlener

topic: Children, Stress, Home, Developmental, Clinicals

The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.

- Willie Parker

topic: Mean, College, Law, Electoral College, Family Planning

We now have a national security consideration, public health issues, we have an epidemic of heroine overdoses in all places in this country because of the ease of bringing heroine in. We have to secure the border.

- Jeb Bush

source: "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

topic: Country, Issues, Epidemics, Overdose, Health Issues