Quotes About Prevention

An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.

We will make the law clearer on parents' liability for failing to prevent their child being subjected to FGM, and we are working to improve the police response.

I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.

There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.

My father's family was mostly obliterated in the Holocaust, and I grew up very much with the sense that the central moral and political question is how do we prevent these things from happening again.

There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.

Multinational food companies can play a large role in helping to prevent chronic diseases around the world by offering healthier choices in the United States and abroad.

Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.

I wish to pay attention to what we can do better to prevent conflict. Because by avoiding conflict, we save human lives, and we also save money.

How can you prevent an attack by returning foreign fighters if you are not cognizant of their names and links to ISIS?

I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at any price.

It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

You cannot prevent collisions if the data that can prevent them is still making its way through the network.

We might work on ways to prevent plastic getting into the ocean in the first place.