Lois Capps Quotes

I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

Lois Capps

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • Health
  • Care

• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Important
  • American

• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• As heat rises, so does the number of people trying to cool down homes, schools, hospitals and businesses. This isn't just about comfort; it's a matter of public health.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Trying
  • Health

• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • American
  • Win
  • Gold

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Time
  • American
  • Study

• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • American
  • Myself

• In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Work
  • American
  • Military

• British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Women
  • American
  • Fun

• My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Life
  • Health
  • Exercise

• There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • American
  • Community
  • White

• In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • American
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

  

  Florence King
  • American
  • Marriage
  • Pay

• And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

  

  Martin Rees
  • May
  • American
  • Science

• To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape policies that will serve the American people, keep them safe, keep our economy growing, put people back to work.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• In America, we want a peaceful planet. We want people to be able to enjoy their lives and know they're going to have a bright and prosperous future, not be at war. That's our purpose.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • War

• Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Country
  • House
  • Sick

• I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.

  

  Mario Monti
  • Country
  • Past

• I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

  

  Lois Capps
  • American
  • Health