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

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

- 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? Make your kids go out and play.

- C. Everett Koop

Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same t…

- C. Everett Koop

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

- 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

The best prescription is knowledge.

- C. Everett Koop

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minut…

- 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 of the time

- C. Everett Koop