No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.
If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.
The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block the sensible collaboration between two NHS hospitals. They can no longer deny it, it’s absolutely clear.
I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.
One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.
The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.
The promise to use the money we currently send to Brussels and invest it instead on the priorities of the British people - principally in the NHS - and to cut VAT on domestic fuel. With my leadership, it will be delivered.
Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.
Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.
I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.
It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk.
There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.
The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.
The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.
Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.
I wouldnt be here today if it were not for the NHS, I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.