Mike Leavitt
Mike Leavitt
Michael Okerlund "Mike" Leavittis an American Republican politician. He served as the 14th Governor of Utah from 1993 to 2003, as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2003 to 2005 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2005 to 2009...
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We as governors join you and others to call for a return of civility to Washington,
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I share with you the view that the agency needs permanent leadership,
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Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.
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The threat of pandemic flu is an urgent health challenge,
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There's no secret about the fact that our vaccine manufacturing capacity domestically is not what we need it to be, ... We've got to improve in that area.
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Will critics say, 'We have been crying wolf,' and lose the sense of urgency we feel about this issue?
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If one thinks of the world as though it were a vast forest, if there is a spark in the forest and you are there to see it, you are able to simply snuff it out,
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One of the bitter ironies of this to me, this whole thing, is that we were so fundamentally superior in our bid to anyone else in the world that everyone knew we were going to win,
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Seniors want to hear about this over and over again, ... Because to them it is a very significant change in their life. . . . This isn't about the fact that it's available. What they want to know is: 'Will this drug be covered?' 'How much is it going to cost me?' 'How does it affect my situation?'
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She has served in multiple important roles and I'm appreciative of her outstanding performance in each. Salt Lake City will be the beneficiary of her significant energy, keen intelligence, dedication, expertise and the love she has for the state of Utah.
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No one in the world is ready for it, ... But we're more ready today than we were yesterday. And we'll be more prepared tomorrow than we are today.
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No one on this board knew what was going on,
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While there may be short term costs to us individually or collectively, the burden of being secretive and lacking transparency would be catastrophic,
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We have been discussing ways in which we could shorten the time frames and broaden our production capabilities