Jimmy Carter Quotes About Health

Quotes about: Health

• The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

  Jimmy Carter

  Health, Destiny, Marijuana

• The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Health, Science, Toxic Waste

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.591, University of Arkansas Press

• The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Health, Doctors

• I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mother, Country, Children

• The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

  Jimmy Carter

  Block, Health, Care

  "CBS's Stahl to Jimmy Carter: 'You Blame Teddy' for Killing Universal Health Care?". "The Early Show" with Whit Johnson, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2010.

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