Quotes about insurance
A collection of quotes on the topic of insurance, people, health, use.
Quotes about insurance
The Satanic Bible (1969)

“Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.”
As quoted in Sacramento Bee (28 April 1966)
1960s

2015, State of the Union Address (January 2015)

Interview with WebMD (14 March 2014) http://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/webmd-interviews-obama
2014

The National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration in: Effect of Violent Video Games on Kids; Dogs' Efforts to Keep Mail Safe; Spanish Government Sues Over Oil Spills http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/18/nac.00.html,CNN.com, May 18, 2003

2017, Farewell Address (January 2017)

First Inaugural Address (4 March 1829).
1820s

1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)

This is the conclusion to an article entitled "Older Ideas of Firearms" by C. S. Wheatley; it was published in the September 1926 issue of Hunter, Trader, Trapper (vol. 53, no. 3), p. 34. Wheatley had referred to George Washington's address to the second session of the first Congress immediately before this passage, which may have given rise to the mistaken attribution. See this piece http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/26/firearm/ at Quote Investigator
Misattributed

1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties

1920s, What I Believe (1925)

Meeting with House Republicans, (January 2010) http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440324/posts
2010

Source: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness.

2014, Sixth State of the Union Address (January 2014)

Speech in House of Commons, as recorded (in third person) in the | minutes of 20 June, 1839 http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1839/jun/20/education-adjourned-debate#S3V0048P0_18390620_HOC_4.
1830s
Context: [It appears to me that] the Society of Education, that school of philosophers, were, with all their vaunted intellect and learning, fast returning to the system of a barbarous age, the system of a paternal government. Wherever was found what was called a paternal government was found a state education. It had been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience was to commence tyranny in the nursery. There was a country in which education formed the only qualification for office. That was, therefore, a country which might be considered as a normal school and pattern society for the intended scheme of education. That country was China. These paternal governments were rather to be found in the east than in the west, and if the hon. Member for Waterford asked [me] for the most perfect programme of public education, if he asked [me] to point out a system at once the most profound and the most comprehensive, [I] must give him the system of education which obtained in Persia. Leaving China and Persia and coming to Europe, [I] found a perfect system of national education in Austria, the China of Europe, and under the paternal government of Prussia. The truth was, that wherever everything was left to the government the subject became a machine.

2018, Speech at the University of Illinoise Speech (2018)

Source: "I am a Revolutionary Black Woman" (1970), p. 483

Source: The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002), p. 76


“Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.”
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

First Lecture, The Definition of Probability, p. 18
Probability, Statistics And Truth - Second Revised English Edition - (1957)

1960s, State of the Union Address (1966)

Board of Ed. of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet (1994) (dissenting) (citations and some internal quotation marks omitted).
1990s

The Queen v. Miles (1890), L. R. 24 Q. B. 433.

Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 3, You Can't Tell the Players, p. 39.

Fox News Sunday
2011-05-15, quoted in * Ron Paul Calls Social Security and Medicare Unconstitutional, Compares Them to ‘Slavery’
Think Progress
2011-05-15
Ian
Millhiser
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/15/166363/paul-ss-medicare-slavery/
2011-08-28
2011

Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 55

Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) (dissenting).
2000s

lecture performance at Mueumsquartier, Vienna, 2016

First Lecture, The Definition of Probability, p. 26
Probability, Statistics And Truth - Second Revised English Edition - (1957)

Freedom from Want radio talk, July 10, 1942 (the fifth of "The Forgotten People" series)
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)
Source: http://menziesvirtualmuseum.org.au/transcripts/the-forgotten-people/63-chapter-5-freedom-from-want

2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget
How Not to Complain About Taxes (III): "I deserve my pretax income" http://left2right.typepad.com/main/2005/01/how_not_to_comp_1.html (January 26, 2005)

Speech in Birmingham (5 March 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp 30-31.
1925

Apology to Michael Scotto (29 January 2014) http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/michael-grimm-michael-scotto-reporter-102785.html.
2010s

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (2014)

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.”
Insurance up to Date
Literary Lapses (1910)

Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Harmony of Determinism and Freedom, p.350-1
(p. 31)
Sylvia cartoon strip
Source: Images of Organization (1986), p. 20; As cited in as Vivien Martin -(2003) Leading change in health and social care. p. 157: About the organization as machine:

Source: The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948), Ch. 3, Part 2: The Happy Variety of Minds, p. 125.

“There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.”
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 2, By Popular Demand: A very Short Chapter On Insurance Accounting, p. 26.

1990s, Letter to Patrick Leahy (1999)

In an article in Contingencies magazine, September/October, 2008 http://www.contingencies.org/septoct08/mccain.pdf
2000s, 2008

“Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.”
http://jco.usfca.edu/boxing/desert.html
On boxing

Gary Hamel in: Gary Hamel On Innovating Innovation http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/12/04/gary-hamel-on-innovating-innovation/, Forbes, 4 December 2012.

“The nation … must sacrifice some present advantages in order to insure to itself future ones.”
Source: The National System of Political Economy (1841), Ch. 12

Day of Affirmation Address (1966)

Obama vs. the Phobocracy http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/03/AR2008020302526.html, Washington Post (February 4, 2008)

“Life insurance is a commodity.”
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 13, Gerber Life: Like Taking Candy From A Baby, p. 235.

[2009-07-30, Mr. President, what's the rush?, USA Today, 7A, http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090730/column30_st.art.htm]
2009

Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Human Immortality: its Positive Argument, p.309-10

subsequently merged
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 14, Too Many Salesman, p. 250.

The Quality You Need Most, from Green Book Magazine (April 1914)

Third Lecture, Critical Discussion of the Foundations of Probability, p. 80
Probability, Statistics And Truth - Second Revised English Edition - (1957)
'Oral history interview with Robert Motherwell', 1971 Nov. 24 - 1974 May 1, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
after 1970
when people who've had these accidents come on like medieval beggars, and wave their stumps at you for money with these outlandish stories - 'I slipped on a banana skin and successfully sued the Dominican Republic...' (Wrap up Warm tour, May 2004)
Stand-up

1920s, Second State of the Union Address (1924)

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 2, The Historical Background, p. 39

“I'm a spy… I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.”
Said Jokingly.
2000s, Larry King Live (2000)

Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 1, “The Message in the Steam” (p. 17)

Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 1, The Biggest Game In The World, p. 15.
"The Liberal Christ Gives a Press Conference", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991).

Conversation reported in B.L. Rayner, Life of Jefferson (1834), p. 356. The exact date is not known, but the conversation took place in one of several meetings with the President during Humboldt's visit to Washington, D.C., from June 1 to June 27, 1804.

Thomas Jefferson's Seventh State of the Union Address (27 October 1807). Description of the negotiations and rejected treaty of James Monroe and William Pinkney with Britain over maritime rights, and subsequent negotiations over the British sinking of the American ship Chesapeake, leading to an American embargo (The Embargo Act).
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)

“The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.”
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 15, How God Would Restructure the Insurance Industry, p. 272.

"Bengals report: Notes, quotes" http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/teams/report/CIN/9006407, CBS Sports (27 October 2005)

" Timeless Identity http://lesswrong.com/lw/qx/timeless_identity/" (June 2008)

2012-10-11
Romney in Central Ohio
Health care called ‘choice’
The Columbus Dispatch
Joe Vardon, Darrel Rowland and Joe Hallett
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/10/11/health-care-called-choice.html
2012-10-12
2012

Speech at Huddersfield Town Hall (15 October 1951), quoted in Winston Churchill, Stemming the Tide: Speeches 1951 and 1952 (London: Cassell & Co, 1953), p. 149
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Remarks To Freedom Summit, Manchester NH https://www.redstate.com/diary/marshablackburn/2014/04/12/remarks-freedom-summit-manchester-nh/ (April 12, 2014)