C. Everett Koop

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

— C. Everett Koop

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions,…

— C. Everett Koop

I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally…

— C. Everett Koop

The best prescription is knowledge.

— C. Everett Koop

The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps…

— C. Everett Koop

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

— C. Everett Koop

I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you?…

— C. Everett Koop

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all…

— C. Everett Koop

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in…

— C. Everett Koop

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

— C. Everett Koop

Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is…

— C. Everett Koop

That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done.…

— C. Everett Koop

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

— C. Everett Koop

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have…

— C. Everett Koop

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or…

— C. Everett Koop

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

— C. Everett Koop

Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the…

— C. Everett Koop

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

— C. Everett Koop

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child…

— C. Everett Koop

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

— C. Everett Koop

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green…

— C. Everett Koop

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

— C. Everett Koop

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

— C. Everett Koop

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy…

— C. Everett Koop

Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of…

— C. Everett Koop