"I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer."

"People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for."

"My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics."

"I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world."

"I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before."

"The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive."

"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body."

"Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system."