David Satcher People Quotations

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

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.

This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to adolescence can direct young people away from violence toward healthy and constructive lives.

I'm sure that many of the deaths that have occurred (after the hurricane) have resulted from people with chronic diseases either suffering from dehydration or (the) inability to access their medications, ... All of these risks of suffering from chronic diseases and dying from them were greatest for the poor and the other people who could not get out of there.

The underlying premise of Healthy People 2010 is that the health of the individual is inseparable from the health of the larger community,

It's hard to believe that more people have died from suicide than homicide, but it's a sad fact,

We believe the treatment is to really discuss this issue with (patients) and to try them make them understand that we are able to respond, but to also understand the harm that can be done if people hoard antibiotics, use them inappropriately so that we develop more resistant strains

Failure to effectively use every intervention strategy available to help our young people would be a tragic mistake,

I think the history is such that we underestimate the mental health problems, ... As people see what they consider sort of a hopeless situation - bodies floating on the water, the scene like they saw in the Superdome - people are not ready for that. They are not prepared to deal with it.