"Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?"
"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."
Buddha on Health"The wish for healing has always been half of health."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Health"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
Tom Stoppard on Health"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
John Muir on Health"'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes."
Henry David Thoreau on Health"Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on."
"What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?"
"Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it."
"Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice."
"Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice."