Pharmaceutical Industry Quotes:

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

- Paul Farmer

topic: Organization, Imagination, Adequate, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.

- Marcia Angell

topic: Drug, Nerves, Research, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

source: Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

topic: Views, Alcohol, Drug, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

- Marty Meehan

topic: Senior, Confusing, Drug, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry

We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been,

- George W. Merck

topic: Medicine, People, Trying, Appearing, Pharmaceutical Industry

I think the entire pharmaceutical industry has a lot of work to do to restore public trust.

- Kenneth C. Frazier

source: "Big Pharma's Delicate Dance on Drug Prices". Interview with Peter Loftus, www.wsj.com. February 21, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Pharmaceutical, Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry

The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.

- Bill Gates

topic: Biotech, Pharmaceutical Industry

Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself.

- Marcia Angell

source: "The Truth About the Drug Companies". www.nybooks.com. July 15, 2004.

topic: Past, Fda, Two, Pharmaceutical Industry

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

- Pierre Dukan

topic: Years, Trying, Firsts, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.

- Marcia Angell

source: "Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption". www.nybooks.com. January 15, 2009.

topic: Believe, Editors, Two, Pharmaceutical Industry, Clinicals

Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant.

- Jim Gaffigan

source: Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.54, Crown Archetype

topic: Baby, Powerful, Should, Antidepressants, Pharmaceutical

Every American has got to recognize, we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people. We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs because the pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry is out of control ripping us off.

- John Lewis

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Country, People, Drug, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmacy

In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer.

- Vernon Coleman

topic: Powerful, Independent, Doctors, Pharmaceutical Industry, Practice Of Medicine

It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in terms of profits and my country recently went to war due to oil pricing. What does that say they will do to keep this other industry in tact? It is up to patients and their families to question what they are being given, and to consumers to demand better, more natural alternatives.

- Margot Kidder

topic: Country, War, Oil, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pricing

The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health.

- Robert Jarvik

topic: Understanding, Important, Benefits, Pharmaceutical Industry

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.

- Marcia Angell

topic: Country, United States, Want, Pharmaceutical Industry

Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.

- Pierre Bosquet

topic: Health, Doctors, Medicine, Pharmaceutical Industry

The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.

- Marcia Angell

topic: Care, Waste, Inefficiency, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry

You cannot be a party which takes money from Wall Street, which is not strong on the pharmaceutical industry, which is ripping us off every day, which is not strong on health care in taking on the insurance companies, which has not shown a desire to stand up and fight the economic establishment, and then tell working families that you are on their side. People see through that.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Strong, Wall, Party, Pharmaceutical Industry

The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about science and having skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Thinking, Differences, Skepticism, Pharmaceutical Industry

The quality of the medical care delivered, including the pharmaceutical industry, has improved a lot. I don't think it's crazy for a rich country like the USto spend 15% of GDP on healthcare, and if it rose to 16-17%, it's not a big worry.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Country, Crazy, Thinking, Pharmaceutical Industry

[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

- James Black

topic: Optimistic, Science, Vision, Pharmaceutical Industry

People treat having a kid as somehow retiring from success. Quitting. Have you seen a baby? They’re pretty cute. Loving them is pretty easy. Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant. Being happy is really the definition of success, isn’t it?

- Jim Gaffigan

source: Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.54, Crown Archetype

topic: Cute, Baby, Powerful, Antidepressants, Pharmaceutical

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Use, Antibiotics, Reason, Health Professionals, Pharmaceutical

Every major country on earth, whether it's the U.K., whether it's France, whether it's Canada, has managed to provide healthcare to all people as a right and they are spending significantly less per capita on health care than we are. So I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can't do that.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, February 5, 2016.

topic: Country, America, People, Pharmaceutical Industry, Prescription Drugs

That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy middle-aged men out there lusting for your kids. They work for MTV, the pharmaceutical industry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K Street.

- Bill Maher

source: "Real Time with Bill Maher",

topic: Kids, Men, Mcdonalds, Middle Aged, Pharmaceutical Industry

Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who have a vested interest in the drug industry fuels this propaganda.

- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

topic: Drug, Fuel, Want, Pharmaceutical Industry

If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.

- Deepak Chopra

source: "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

topic: Military, Gmo Foods, Gmos, Special Interest Groups, Special Interests

I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be able to help but I don't see this as the opportunity, having done 'Extraordinary measures', for me to suddenly leap on a soap box and begin to talk about the pharmaceutical industry or the desperate plight of sick children. I do what I can in my world but I don't have the bona fides to do that right now.

- Harrison Ford

source: "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

topic: Children, Opportunity, Sick, Pharmaceutical Industry, Sick Children

Since the 1920s, virtually all continuing medical and public health education is funded by pharmaceutical companies. In fact, today, the FDA can't even tell health scientists the truth about vaccine contaminants and their likely effects. The agency is bound and gagged by proprietary laws and non-disclosure agreements forced upon them by the pharmaceutical industry. Let us not forget that the pharmaceutical industry, as a special interest group, is the number one contributor to politicians on Capital Hill.

- Leonard Horowitz

topic: Fda, Agency, Agreement, Special Interest Groups, Pharmaceutical Industry

From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP

- Tony Juniper

topic: Army, Years, Gdp, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry

As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Two, People, Choices, Antidepressants, Antibiotics

The whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science and drumming it into the minds of gullible people who have no curiosity to find out why that is so.

- Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

topic: People, Curiosity, Mind, Pharmaceutical Industry, Gullible

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.

- Margaret Chan

source: "Businesses urged to prepare for flu pandemic". Interview with Desley Coleman, www.abc.net.au. May 1, 2009.

topic: Government, Community, Phases, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry