Department of Health and Human Services Quotes

The family is the original Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

The best information from the leading medical and health scientists and experts in the country was dead wrong.

Every President does it. It goes back to George Washington. I can’t say that past Administrations have asked the same questions, but the end result is the same—you put people on boards that you want.

The FCC on any given day has much more influence than the better known agencies like the entire Department of Health and Human Services.

With you at HEW, Carter has no chance to carry North Carolina, Virginia, or Kentucky – and maybe even Connecticut, where they make cigars. That anti-smoking campaign will kill him.

It took a firm hand, sometimes a fist, to imbue a bureaucracy this vast with effective compassion.

I believe in health care reform. I believe that HMS’s should be sued.

In Washington, the funds available to the several other agencies for their overseas operations exceed those available to the State Department; the White House has not always given the State Department the necessary support.

... transfer clemency reviews out of the Justice Department and put them in the Department of Health and Human Services.... The department that prosecuted a case and advocated for a sentence is not the appropriate one to conduct a neutral clemency review.

With jurisdiction over the issue of abortion and the purity and safety of food, was the only place in America where both motherhood and apple pie were controversial.

Politicians make pacts; people make peace.

When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare.