Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased."
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Health Care
52 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Lewis
Politician
"We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege."
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"Our health care is rationed by wealth."
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."
Barack Obama
Politician
"The market alone can't solve our health-care woes."
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"ObamaCare is a massive budget buster, that it is creating massive deficits in the future. And I really believe it's going to destroy the health care plan, the health care system in America."
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"In a lot of ways, being a writer is a lousy job - grueling, emotionally taxing, terrible hours, no health care - so if it wasn't about love, what would be the point?"
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"America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody."
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"I fully support a national health care program for the U.S."
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"I received free health care."
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"[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly."
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"I get terrific health care."
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"Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve."
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