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She actually started the women's network in this town. Jodie brought all the women together from the Carter administration in her home.

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Helene was not afraid to go into a brothel, nor was she afraid to invest U.S. resources in AIDS at the ends of the Earth, to give actual hope.

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Africa, Asia, every country in the world, they were all in denial. The health ministers kept assuring us they had everything under control. (Gayle) kept pushing . . . to get programs, strengthen the private sector, the public sector. She just never gave up.

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I get to work at about 730 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting.

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Well, it took everybody a while to build relationships of trust, whether it was the White House staff with the cabinet agencies.

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

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He's your dream candidate for president of the United States, ... He's a moral man, an intellectual. He thinks through issues, he struggles. He shows the complexity of decision-making in the White House.

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

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We can't wait for everybody in this country to get good health insurance, ... When you really want to close a health care gap and you do not have a single health care system, you go to every part of the country and have everybody pull in the same direction.

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Most of all, our health care professionals need to understand that federal law has not changed, that it continues to be illegal in the United States to prescribe marijuana.

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There are thousands of people each day whose lives and the quality of their health care are affected because we do not have national legislation that sets standards and establishes a set of rules that would ensure that they get quality care, ... That's more than frustrating -- that's unacceptable.

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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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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.

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All of those women would say they stand on the shoulders of Mrs. King. So do the rest of us, not just women of color.

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I have long ties to the women's community.

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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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Younger Americans are also a concern because almost 15 percent of young people aren't physically active at all, ... We face a great public health challenge.

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The current organ allocation system is unfair to the patients, ... You can wait literally 500 days in one part of the country, and walk off a golf course and get a liver in another part of the country.

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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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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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What we're doing is protecting elderly disabled immigrants in nursing homes, ... They're not part of the welfare reform debate. The welfare reform debate is about moving people from welfare to work.

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Sending a tough message against drugs, particularly to young people, is a little like sending a message into deep space, ... The message goes out and then you wait a year or more to find out if it's been heard.

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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.

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