Quotes About Prevention

We need to do a better job identifying what's contributing to the crime and making sure we hold people accountable in a way that addresses that root cause.

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

Whether you are aware of it or not, if you eat right then you are giving yourself the best chance of defending against illness.

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

If you don't support people with mental illnesses they are more likely to develop a physical illness too and that is challenging.

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look hard at what else can be done earlier on. It is not the lack of food but the fact that some people cannot get access to the food that causes the famine.

Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.

The asbestos problem impacts everyone.

I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.

Having a kid now, I impress on him all the time how dangerous drugs are.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

Teaching young people about healthy lifestyles should include a conversation about cancer risk factors.

All Hoosiers, all Americans, myself included, should never go broke in this country because you get sick or have a bad accident.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

The critical next step is to stop thinking of black swans the way most people do. They are not bolt-from-the-blue freak accidents that are impossible to understand or prevent. They can be studied. And mitigated.

In practical terms, the trick to successful participation in a high-risk sport is to acknowledge that bad things can happen, make every effort to prevent those things from happening, and be prepared to confront accidents when they do occur.

whenever complacency took hold in our diving careers, disaster was sure to follow.

If a person deals with anger or despair when they first appear, illness need not occur. When we don't deal with our emotional needs, we set ourselves up for physical illness.

Instead of spending more money on the military than the next ten nations combined, we should lead the world in diplomacy and international collaboration, especially when it comes to preventing wars and combating climate change.

so we could all burn in our beds with no warning?' 'Oh, you'd have plenty of warning, ma'am. The smoke detectors all work.

So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to grow unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. This nation is opposed to war. We are also true to our word. Our unswerving objective, therefore, must be to prevent the use of these missiles against this or any other country and to secure their withdrawal or elimination from the Western Hemisphere.