Access to Services Quotes

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.

We're moving more and more toward user fees, but the people who use social service programs obviously don't have the ability to pay for them.

I serve on a lot of charitable boards - the areas of mental health parity, services for those that are underserved, and certainly children's rights are things that I believe in very, very strongly.

The United States of America provides the freedom, I should say permits, allows, does not constrain the freedom that we're all born with that allows each of us to pursue whatever it is that we define as a quality of life. Access to quality-of-life services, access to quality-of-life products is unparalleled in the United States of America.

My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the villages.

Ordinary citizens need access to government-held information in order to exercise their rights in just about every phase of their lives–whether to gain entry to education, apply for a job, gain access to a poverty alleviation scheme, build or buy a house, start a business or collect a pension. Without it, they are ready prey to the corrupt and the abusive. ..

The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch.

Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.

We live in a world where adolescents and young people, especially from key populations, are still left behind. We cannot fail to address their needs.

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.

When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty.

Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.

The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.

We know that all too often, homelessness and behavioral health challenges go hand in hand.

A failing social care system will have long-lasting repercussions for all, but it is women who are likely to be worst hit.