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

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.

Every day that goes by means more needless new infections and more human suffering,

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...

We believe we should keep going. We’re telling a story about excellence, about going from being very good to extraordinary.

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...

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

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...

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

She actually started the women’s network in this town,

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), … Meet The Press.

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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

They are paying, but we’re putting the money in escrow, which we will return to their home institution, … The problem is an ethical one — if those schools [in the hurricane-damaged areas] reopen, we...

at this moment, we don’t need a summit.

I have always hired very strong people.

I must have helped 15 people get in the program.

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren’t in the freshman class and aren’t graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the...

I have long ties to the women’s community.

The new century brings new challenges and opportunities to improve the health of everyone in the United States, … People not only want to live a long life, but they also want to enjoy a...

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.

The National Institutes of Health will continue to review the claims about the possible benefit of smoked marijuana for a small number of indications,

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...

This is a significant moment in women’s history, but also in American history,

Fear drives you and makes you better

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.

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...

Having plain English information, with uniform labels, is very important for over-the-counter drugs,

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

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.

We’re moving very rapidly into quality measures, so that Americans can control their own health care and have a better sense of which plan will provide them with quality health care,