Donna Shalala
Donna Shalala
Donna Edna Shalalawas the 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 currently serves as the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth14 February 1941
CountryUnited States of America
Today we have good news about America's health,
We're not talking about mandatory marathons or about Cal Ripken-style workouts,
We're losing ground in the battle to protect our children,
This is a significant moment in women's history, but also in American history,
This early report is very promising and shows that we are making progress in moving parents on welfare into jobs or giving them the work skills they need to get a job,
The National Institutes of Health will continue to review the claims about the possible benefit of smoked marijuana for a small number of indications,
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.
(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.
He went from being a governor to being a president, from being someone who thought that perhaps states could do almost everything to someone that wanted to make sure that, when we did devolve power to the states, that opportunities didn't differ from one state to another.
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.
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.
But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.
Illicit drug use fell from 11.4 percent (in 1997) to 9.9 percent (in 1998) among young people aged 12-17, a statistically significant decline, ... while illicit drug use overall remained flat.
In too many cases, we are missing opportunities to save people simply because families are never contacted and donation is never even considered as an option,