Quotes by Donna Shalala - Page 1

Fear drives you and makes you better.
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I have long ties to the women's community.
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Community
Long
Ties
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We are living longer, and we need to live better.
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I try to deal with my serious reading before work.
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Reading
Serious
Trying
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Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.
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Education
People
Sex
Sex Education
Head
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I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
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People
Underestimate
Whole Life
Life Me People
Underestimating
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I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.
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Disciplined
Schedule
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But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.
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Return
Calls
Driver
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You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.
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Campaigns
Energy
Want
Campaign
Destroy
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I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting.
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Breakfast
Meeting
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The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.
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Government
Capable
Complexes
Delivering
Complex
Fully
Services
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We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.
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Encouragement
Drug Use
Needles
Program
Concluded
Programs
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I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.
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Administration
People
Plans
Sells
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By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.
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Calm
Down And
Issues
People
Work Me People
Issue
Slow
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In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.
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Adults
Caring
Children
Fairy
Saved
Tales
Adult
Fairy Tales
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In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.
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Community
Difficult Times
People
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The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.
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Dog
Monday
Saturday
Sunday
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I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.
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Adventure
Homework
Risk
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We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
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Fabric
Large Numbers
Numbers
People
Afford
Large
Social Fabric
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Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.
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Life
Government
Different
Periods
Take Care
Short Periods
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I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.
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Bunch
Large Scale
Nuts
Program
Thinking
Deliver
Democrats
Programs
Liberal
Liberal Democrats
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We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
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Teacher
Differences
Parental
Pressure
School
Teachers
Schools
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I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.
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Capable
Different Ages
Older People
Always Me People
Ages
Me People Young
Fully
Young People
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I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.
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Doctors
Healthcare
People
Turns
Use
Doctor
Health Problem
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Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.
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Clinton
Issues
Polls
President
Tobacco
Apparent
Issue
Shaped
Stepped
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I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together.
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Boards
February
January
Pieces
Together
Absolute
Admit
Board
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I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.
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Admire
Big Problems
People
Polls
President Bush
Security
Social Security
Successful
Thinking
Backed
Bush
Unpopular
Step
Tried
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Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.
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Kids
Class
Freshman
Years
Future I Am Me
Future Me I Am
Freshman Class
Graduating
Reminded
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What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.
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Mistake
My Own
Terrible
Together
Years
Mistakes
Beginning
Budget
Catch
Least
Throw
Took
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I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with.
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Class
Community
Research
Ties
World Class
Communities
Minority
Universities
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We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.
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Circumstances
Country
Growing Up
Mainstream
School
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Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center.
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Dance
Inspirational
Alcohol
Alternatives
Fun
Fun Things
Party
Providing
Scene
Streets
Center
Fun Looking People
Parties
Young People
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It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs.
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Coaches
Homework
Work Better People
Supporting
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You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
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Backgrounds
Different Backgrounds
Elite
Europeans
Latest
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But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.
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Death
Future
Bright Future
Died
Painful
Young
Future I Am Me
Death I Am Me
Bright
Deaths
Student
Times
Explain
Haunted
Young People
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Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.
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Degrees
Higher
Higher Education
Education Best World
Graduate
Wins
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You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.
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Education
America
Believe
College
Controversial
Free Speech
Ideas
Speech
Students
Uncomfortable
University
Believe Free I Believe
Education Believe I Believe
Free
Part
College Campuses
Times
Terribly
Having
Hear
Makes
Though
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The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework.
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Daughter
Dinner Party
Distinguished
Faces
Homework
Scientist
Dimension
Waiters
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I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.
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Acceptable
American Society
Fun
Minorities
Race
Self Confident
Sex
Argue
Particularly
Generation
Parents
Longer
Present
Putting
Young People
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We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.
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Courses
Higher
Higher Education
Requirements
School
School System
Secondary School
Skills
Taken
Wisconsin
Helped
Increased
Secondary
Transform
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Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.
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Leadership
Moving
Thinking
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