Inferior Quote by Vivek Murthy

I think people often forget how powerful they are. Sometimes it just takes one voice to save a life. When we speak up we…

— Vivek Murthy

We don't do enough to help older people recognize how much they matter.

— Vivek Murthy

When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country,…

— Vivek Murthy

We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something…

— Vivek Murthy

Climate change poses a serious, immediate and global threat to health.

— Vivek Murthy

I trained in internal medicine, and I expected most of my time would be spent on diabetes or heart disease or cancer. What I…

— Vivek Murthy

I do not intend to use the Surgeon General's Office as a bully pulpit for gun control.

— Vivek Murthy

We know that chronic loneliness has consequences. It certainly depresses our mood. And in terms of our health, people who struggle with loneliness also…

— Vivek Murthy

Gun violence is a problem that this country should be addressing.

— Vivek Murthy

You can be surrounded by many people but still feel quite lonely if you don't have strong connections and if you feel you can't…

— Vivek Murthy

Service is a powerful pathway of getting out of loneliness. It takes the focus off of you and puts it onto someone else.

— Vivek Murthy

Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness:…

— Vivek Murthy