David Satcher Quotes

Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility.

Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.

Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.

There is no health without mental health.

The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.