72 Quotes by Joycelyn Elders

You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.

[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.

But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me.

Handguns are a public health issue.

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.