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Donna Shalala
February 14, 1941 -
Nationality: American
Category: Public Servant
Subcategory: American Publicservant

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.

   

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

   

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.

   

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.

   

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

   

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

   

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.

   

We are living longer, and we need to live better.

   

I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.

   

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

   

The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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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