Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become.
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Related Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared ... GABRIELLE GIFFORDS Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, ... CAMPBELL BROWN Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal go... GAVIN NEWSOM The continuing epidemic of obesity is a critical public health concern. As a nation, we need to resp... JEFFREY KOPLAN Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in muc... DAVID L. KATZ Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic. ADAM COHEN We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, p... ELIZABETH ESTY I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they ... MARSHA BLACKBURN The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary Schoo... ADAM HAMILTON It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become ex... MOHANDAS GANDHI We were really shocked by the findings, given all the media attention this epidemic has gotten. It's... HAROLD GOLDSTEIN Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not se... RALPH NADER Any health ministry that presides over the spread of an epidemic like this one has much to answer fo... ZWELINZIMA VAVI Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy. LARRY KING First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the bigg... TED CRUZ If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, please know that my heart bleeds and... BETSY DEVOS I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated... WAGNER MOURA We take any child that has at least a history of violence and mental health needs and can't be taken... HENRY GARDNER It's just absolutely unfair. We have many students in parochial elementary schools who elect to go t... LAWRENCE BOWMAN As far as violence goes, school is school. You are going to have your regular everyday fights that k... LARRY FRAZIER Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA It's good to get a win over them, especially since they have beaten us pretty handily the last two t... BARTON BICKERTON The two countries have witnessed remarkable progress in political, economic, educational, cultural a... HUANG JU This has been a long time coming for us. We first conceived of the project about 10 years ago, and t... CRAIG BRYSON It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. DAN SIMMONS I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health... MANDY PATINKIN We have a history of working very collaboratively together (with Montpelier), so that relationship i... LEE LAUBER We're collectively mounting this effort in order to try and fend off what could become another publi... ALAN LESHNER At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs... MARIA MONTESSORI I think it boils down to the fact that Montgomery has become a private school town. The enrollment o... CHARLES LEE This is the most important advance in public health since Sir Richard Doll identified that smoking c... ALEX MARKHAM It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other... GARY BAUER Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Sarasota has been as hard hit as any place along the Gulf Coast, if not harder. It is a public healt... FRANK JACKALONE We are trying to keep kids from having to go to three elementary schools in three years. There will ... RON BRADSHAW So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public sch... ANN RICHARDS Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged int... EAMON DE VALERA Maybe three or four years ago (eight wins) was the plateau and then maybe three or four years ago th... STAN HEATH We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety ... SARAH BRADY The public high school needs to be all things to all people. We have to provide the challenge for th... MICHAEL WELCH Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE I think the violence will continue. Alas, we have learned not to believe that deliverance is around ... FOUAD AJAMI There is a situation at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette that public health is monitoring. T... KRISTEN MEYER I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with th... DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is wh... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI A preponderance of evidence, from the best observational studies the medical world has to offer, gat... CEDRIC GARLAND Four years ago, we were in that same boat. We lost three in a row. This year, I think we're more foc... DAMARCUS BEASLEY The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as... PETE SACO Bullying is a public health problem (tied to) the larger issue of youth violence in this country. JOSEPH WRIGHT Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT We find that a lot of them have very significant cancer that needs to be treated but wouldn't have b... DR. GARY ONIK The wall, and the sponsors of the Million Mom March, stands in memory of the more than 80 Americans ... DONNA DEES-THOMASES When you look at the epidemic of obesity in this country, which is not going away anytime soon, you ... BETH DZIENGELEWSKI We, of course, would like to see the legislature do three things. One is increase overall funding to... LOUIS MALFARO In spite of this tragedy, reducing lead poisoning remains one of the most successful public-health i... DAN SYMONIK I wish we would have started 50 years ago, but to not start now would be a real tragedy. DAVID BARBER We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it... REBECCA SOLNIT We have a great facility and staff, but it needs to be updated. That patient care facility is over 4... JAY BLANTON The next three years will be decisive for us, ... If we don't succeed in the next three years, there... WOLFGANG BERNHARD Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after anot... RICHARD FLANAGAN The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will... PAUL RYAN The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly start... ELIZABETH WARREN This is very similar to the data we got three, four years ago. CRAIG NESBIT He has treated them as good as non-existent and has not even made a mention of these three industrie... RAJ BABBAR That rivalry goes through everything, even what student goes to what school. Contrary to public scho... CARL WILLIAMS Part of the rationale for that is not that we're growing in population, but that we have one school ... DOROTHEA A. SHANNON When I was in elementary school at Tillman, Black History Month was important because I went to a ma... DARNELL JENKINS Energy is important to Americans. Fifty years ago, America was an exporter of oil. A lot has changed... CATHY MCMORRIS It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health cr... RICHARD J. CODEY People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h... ERIC JEROME DICKEY Over the years, the school has since closed and we never did anything about making the church perman... ELIZABETH MCCARTHY I'm seeing that when a [student] has problems, we have limited resources for them in the public scho... LISA CROSBY A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this... CHARLTON HESTON Since Network Rail took over the nation's railway infrastructure some three years ago, maintenance h... 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We have hit a point of informat... RICHARD CARMONA The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching... WILLIAM BENNETT We were shocked by the findings. Given the amount of media attention this epidemic has gotten, we di... HAROLD GOLDSTEIN We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago. ERIN ARCHBOLD At the moment, when we do an intervention we do a small intervention and when we're done, we pull ou... CATHY NONAS The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. p... ROBERT JARVIK I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON This is not a trend we are seeing at Hopkins, in fact our alumni participation has actually increase... CHARLES PHLEGAR 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. 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