And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.

I think about my parents all the time especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health we pray that God's will be done we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

Competition makes things come out right. Well what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs cats lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients but also the health of our entire society.

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.

You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried and not waste time about it.

My body is like breakfast lunch and dinner. I don't think about it I just have it.

Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

I've done an informal anecdotal survey about marriage and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

So many people have said that to me that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa and what this situation brings out in her a hint of happiness and another side to her character.