Jill Biden Quotes

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Jill Biden

Profession : Educator

Birth : June 3, 1951

Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.

Jill Biden

For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.

Jill Biden

The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.

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Life is change.

Jill Biden

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

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I had a number of part-time jobs after school in Willow Grove, but I did work for two summers in Ocean City as a waitress at Chris' Seafood Restaurant. I loved it.

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As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.

Jill Biden

Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.

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I have visited classrooms near military bases to learn more about what schools were doing to support their military kids. I met with teachers overseas to learn about the particular needs they face thousands of miles from America. And I listened to my own granddaughter, who dealt with her father's yearlong deployment to Iraq.

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May God bless our troops.

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We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.

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We have asked a lot of our military families and I believe they deserve the very best efforts of each of us to show them how much we appreciate their service to our country.

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Community colleges are the way of the future.

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The American people know Joe Biden. They know his values. They know what he stands for.

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We've seen the struggle, and we know that most American families are dealing with some sort of struggle like we are. And I think they can relate to us, you know, as parents who are hopeful and are supportive of our son, and we will continue to be supportive. And I think that makes us more empathetic about helping other Americans.

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Not only had I not expected a random call from Joe Biden, but I could never have imagined he would make that call to ask me out. I've been asked if I was starstruck by the fact that a U.S. senator thought I was worth a call, but I honestly wasn't. I was flattered that someone I'd heard of was interested.

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So many people in my life need prayers, and I feel like I owe that to them. After all, in heaven, we feed each other.

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What's on my iPod? Well, certainly Bruce Springsteen.

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Well, when I'm out running, people don't recognize me, which is great. I don't feel pressure; I'm not out to beat anybody or hit a certain time. I just do it for the enjoyment of it. I'm doing it for myself.

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Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.

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