Donna Shalala Quotes

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.
Donna Shalala

Fun, Young, Place

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

Education, Sex, Head

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.
Donna Shalala

Looking, Sure, President

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.
Donna Shalala

Home, Mother, Help

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.
Donna Shalala

Government, Capable, Complex

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

Live, Living, Longer

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.
Donna Shalala

Money, Working, Nation

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.
Donna Shalala

Encourage, Concluded, Programs

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.
Donna Shalala

Work, School, Country

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.
Donna Shalala

Education, School, Saying

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.
Donna Shalala

Mistakes, Together, Remember

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

Energy, Destroy, Campaign

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.
Donna Shalala

Knowledge, Different, American

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: February 14, 1941

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