Quotes by Donna Shalala

“Fear drives you and makes you better”

“We want to do everything as possible to help our community and to help these young people stay on track with their plans for a college education. Its the right thing to do,”

“No one believed that Wisconsins program could be restored to great eminence, ... Barry did it with class and energy and skill.”

“We call upon you to make an immediate determination and to allow the local use of federal funds for needle exchange programs as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention program. To do anything less would be an abdication of your responsibilities.”

“Comprehensive protection of personal medical records is what Congress called for in the law, and its what American patients and their providers want and need,”

“This will not be as generous as people think, ... Face the Nation.”

“This is a significant moment in womens history, but also in American history,”

“She has the right stuff, ... And having the right stuff is not something that is exclusive to one chromosome or another.”

“Most managed care companies want to give every piece of information,”

“Each day, 10 children and teens are killed by firearms, and that is 10 too many, ... However, it is a significant decrease from four years earlier. This indicates that violence prevention efforts are showing results.”

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. Its not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

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.

You cant 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, theyre not going to hear them in America. I believe its part of their education.

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