"Putting People First was progressivism revived, and at its best."

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Source : "The Policy Wonk in the War Room: Reflections After 20 Years" by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#People Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Progressivism Quotes

“Today I begin a new life for I am the master of my abilities and today is going to be a great and beautiful day!”
“Everything is done out of respect, whether it's a cheer or a boo.”
“They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?”
“A lot of people have so many issues like depression, obesity or chronic illness that has to do with gut health.”
“I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?”
“Hair brings oneâ€™s self-image into focus; it is vanityâ€™s proving ground.Â Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices”
“We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury (during that time) is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.”

Source : 1543 Address to a deputation from the House of Commons, 31 Mar.
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934

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