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Donna Shalala

"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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"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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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

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"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

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"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

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"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule."
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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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"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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"I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting."
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"The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services."
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