Donna Shalala

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. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#admit #board #doing #february #fuzz

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. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#bunch #coming #deliver #democrats #expect

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. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#backed #been #big #big problems #bush

I try to deal with my serious reading before work. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#deal #i #reading #serious #try

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#i #people #plans #sells #spokespeople

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

— Donna Shalala

#always #am #disciplined #i #pretty

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

— Donna Shalala

#life #me #people #spent #underestimating

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#difficult #difficult times #easy #every #large

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#children #fairy #fairy tales #lives #more

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

— Donna Shalala

#head #people #sex #sex education