Barack Obama Quotes About Illness

• Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say This is your fault. You have sinned. I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Gay, Fighting

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

• In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

  Barack Obama

  Health, Earth, Ruins

  Barack Obama's speech on Supreme Court Ruling on the Affordable Care Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2012.

• Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see to it that men and women who would never hesitate to go see a doctor if they had a broken arm or came down with the flu, that they have that same attitude when it comes to their mental health.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Struggle, Men

• If you think you got a better idea in terms of how to approach this that's not gonna result in more pollution, and more asthma, and more illness then put your ideas out there. But don't just oppose things because, "This was Obama's agenda."

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Ideas, Agendas

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :"Dear Mr. President: I did not vote for you. I was against Obamacare. And then my son who didn't have health insurance signed up and we just found out that he had an illness. And thankfully he's now covered, otherwise he might not have gotten treatment and I might have lost my house."

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Son, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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