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It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.
David Plouffe
People
Country
Live
Teens
Secretary
Kind
Rate
He
Over
Fairness
Does
Said
Making
His
Question
Effective
Effectively
Than
Going
Tax
Tax Rate
Taxes
Really
Paying
Warren
Less
Warren Buffett
Pays
Right
Million
Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war.
David Plouffe
War
Decision
Congress
Our
Criticized
Opponent
Iraq
Iraq War
End
Many
So we still need a permanent fix. The president would sign the Dream Act tomorrow, the next day, the day after that. That's ultimately the only way to fix this, is for congressional action.
David Plouffe
Day
Tomorrow
Action
President
Way
Sign
Dream
Would
Only
Permanent
Still
Ultimately
Fix
After
Next
Act
Congressional
Need
The American people want to have trust in their leaders.
David Plouffe
Trust
People
Leaders
American
Want
American People
You ask people, 'should we go back to square one?' People don't want to do that.
David Plouffe
You
People
Back
Go
Square
Want
Ask
Should
Listen, we're going to have to fight for every vote.
David Plouffe
Vote
Fight
Every
Going
Listen
We're facing headwinds from Europe. Europe doing the right things here to stabilize their situation is important to our small businesses, our workers, the middle class here, and overall economy.
David Plouffe
Class
Important
Situation
Our
Right Things
Small
Small Businesses
Facing
Overall
Economy
Doing
Stabilize
Middle
Middle Class
Workers
Businesses
Europe
Right
Things
Here
Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.
David Satcher
Speak
Nation
Our
Supply
Safer
Been
Blood
Than
Getting
Ever
Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.
David Satcher
Women
Smoking
Three
Year
Every
Significant
Would
Percent
Only
Like
Smoke
Because
Quit
Help
Who
Two
The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
David Satcher
Health
Country
Hurricane
Hurricane Katrina
Impact
Lead
Day-To-Day
Led
Same
Same Things
Katrina
Things
Basis
We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.
David Satcher
Better
Country
Believe
ADHD
Percent
More
Know
Identify
How
Refer
Than
Children
Want
Suffer
Treatment
I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.
David Shulkin
Care
Job
Physician
First
Administrator
Take
Take Care
Always
Patients
Help
Second
Here
We have about 360,000 employees in the VA health care system. It's the largest health care system in the country. And the negative attention that's been put on VA has hurt the morale of our workforce. And so what we're trying to do is to get people to understand that we're doing great work every day.
David Shulkin
Work
Health
Day
Great
Hurt
Every Day
People
Care
Negative
Country
Employees
Every
Our
System
Morale
About
Put
Attention
Great Work
Health Care
Health Care System
Understand
Doing
Been
Get
Trying
Workforce
Largest
VA
A veteran deserves the very best health care anywhere. That means sometimes, they should go out into the private sector if something's being done better than the VA.
David Shulkin
Best
Health
Better
Sometimes
Veteran
Care
Sector
Out
Something
Health Care
Go
Private
Private Sector
Very
Than
Done
Being
Anywhere
Being Done
Should
Means
Deserves
VA
If there is evidence that an employee has broken the law, caused harm to veterans, or have violated the public trust, they should be terminated immediately. Instead, due to overly cumbersome and lengthy arbitrations as well as extensive bureaucratic red tape, VA has not been able to remove employees as quickly as we would have liked.
David Shulkin
Broken
Trust
Law
Veterans
Remove
Employees
Evidence
Immediately
Would
Able
Instead
Red
Red Tape
Terminated
Employee
Liked
Well
Due
Overly
Caused
Been
Tape
Quickly
Bureaucratic
Public
Lengthy
Should
Public Trust
VA
Violated
Extensive
Harm
What we know about American medicine is that our supply of health-care professionals is not equally distributed. In rural areas, we have severe shortages.
David Shulkin
Medicine
Our
Severe
Distributed
Rural
Rural Areas
About
Area
Supply
Know
Equally
American
Shortages
Professionals
VA is a unique national resource that is worth saving, and I am committed to doing just that.
David Shulkin
Worth
National
Saving
Resource
Am
Doing
Committed
Just
Unique
VA
My career goal is to work as a liaison between organized medicine, government, and third-party payers.
David Shulkin
Work
Government
Medicine
Between
Goal
Organized
Career
When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
Dee Dee Myers
Life
Change
Woman
Women
World
Thought
My Life
First
Important
White
White House
Change The World
Changed
Gave
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Secretary
Press
Press Secretary
Would
Minute
More
Joined
Never
House
Became
Important Role
Clinton
Campaign
Won
Role
Did
Confident
Happen
Bill
Ever
Play
Serve
Start-Up
And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.
Dee Dee Myers
Time
Field
Saw
Month
Circumstances
See
Week
He
Like
Clinton
Just
Whole
Event
Playing
Playing Field
Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
Dee Dee Myers
Women
Communicate
Resolve
Leads
Information
Process
Process Information
Conflicts
Which
Them
Differently
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
Dee Dee Myers
Education
You
Age
Women
Men
Gender
Control
Nursing
Status
Variables
More
No Wonder
Study
Like
Hours
Still
Wonder
Dominated
Substantially
Children
After
Worked
Profession
Even
Gap
Professions
I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.
Dee Dee Myers
You
Eyes
Tough
Lost
Gave
Point
Never
He
Knew
Never Quit
Over
Look
Most
Until
Always
Clinton
Lot
Up
Campaigns
Quit
Candidates
Where
Worked
Bill
Bill Clinton
Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.
Dee Dee Myers
Big
Clinton
Yes
Bill
Bill Clinton
Flirt
Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.
Dee Dee Myers
Honeymoon
Absolutely
Had
None
Clinton
Whatsoever
Zero
The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.
Dee Dee Myers
Time
First
Met
First Time
Clinton
Bill
Bill Clinton
Actually
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