Mike Quigley Quotes

We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.

I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

Our health care system is terribly broken… Health comes from much more than health care and health care is much more than hospitals. We do a good job on treatment and a terrible job on prevention.

Gun control is not the answer. Culture control is the answer.

There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.

When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country, and one of the things I started to notice was that behind many of the stories of addiction, violence, depression and anxiety were threads of loneliness.

We have been embarked on what I would call a proactive strategy that looks at our gun violence as a public health crisis, which is what it is. That means we look at the root causes of the violence.

Mental illness and gun violence are not directly correlated, but when the two go hand in hand, Americans - often children - lose their lives.

I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.

Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

I want to again highlight the desperate need for us to pull together - the world over - to tackle knife crime and teach everyone how sacred a life is.

I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened.

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

Supporting mental wellness is crucial to any goal of decreasing gun violence in America.

Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.

The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.

There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

Where there are sick people and easy access to guns, there will be terror …. Maybe we should rethink this whole gun control thing.