Donna Shalala Quotes

Donna Shalala — American Public Servant born on February 14, 1941,

Donna Edna Shalala is the former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. She was the president of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, from 2001 through 2015. Previously, she was the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1988 to 1993. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush in June 2008. Shalala was selected to lead the Clinton Foundation after she leaves the University of Miami... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

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.

Donna Shalala Quotes

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