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You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.

I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.