Quotes About Prevention

My greatest hope for a future without another Deepwater Horizon disaster lies in our schools, living rooms and community centers, not in boardrooms, political chambers and big industry. If this happens again, we won't have the luxury of the unknown to shield us from answering 'Why?'

All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It's not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure.

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.

We know how unhealthy it is. I know what happens, though - young women start smoking because they don't think they're really going to keep smoking.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective.

Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy.

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

There is one stark fact facing us: three quarters of all crime that results in a caution or sentence happens because of reoffending. We must be fearless in dealing with this.

Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.

We have equated a cancer diagnosis to 'death,' but we look at diabetes as 'something that you get when you get older.' But look at diabetes - it's the leading cause of limb amputation, heart disease, kidney failure. Many people don't equate diabetes with these other destructive things. I didn't equate it to those until I started reading about it.

Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.