Neera Tanden Quotes

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Neera Tanden

Profession : Public Servant

Birth : September 10, 1970

The Democratic Party, the policies that the Clintons and Hillary believe in, I feel like a living example of someone who benefited.

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We can't reach Trump voters on nativism, but we can reach them on bolder answers to economic challenges.

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At the White House I felt like I was politically inclined for a policy person; on the campaign I feel I'm more wonky.

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I'm pretty wonky. I'm wonky because I know about the Section 1115 waiver, I know they help community health centers. New York State pioneered community health centers.

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The reason I'm so active in politics - literally the reason I've devoted so much time to politics and public service - is because of my background.

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My mother was on welfare for a couple of years, then she got a job as a travel agent. Finally, years later, scrimping and saving, she was able to buy a house. I know it sounds totally corny, but she really instilled in me a great deal of, y'know, sort of a desire to serve.

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It is absolutely the case that we need more mental health providers.

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Trump himself has seemingly courted the favor of Russian President Vladimir Putin since the 2016 presidential campaign.

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For decades, Hillary Clinton has been a lot more than a public champion of child care, paid leave and equal pay. She's lived these issues and led on them personally.

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People's life experiences shape their views, their values and, ultimately, their decisions. So it's no surprise that when we study women's leadership, we know women leaders help women.

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I had advised Hillary on policy when she was first lady, a Senate candidate and a senator, so it seemed natural that I'd be part of her presidential run. Natural to everyone but me, that is.

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No doubt, there are plenty of men who have been fierce and laudable advocates for women's issues. But I know from my many years in Washington that when setting priorities and creating an agenda, it matters who sits around the table.

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There was no single architect of the Affordable Care Act.

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The true architects of the ACA are the members of the Senate Finance and Senate Health committees who wrote the bill, with input from dozens of congressional hearings and bipartisan round tables. Before that, presidential candidates, including President Obama, laid out a framework of reforms that became the basis of the Affordable Care Act.

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From our perspective, while violence against women is a problem in it of itself, it's also usually an extreme form of treatment of women at large.

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One really basic thing is to establish women's property and inheritance rights, so women can be their own agents within society.

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The United States has a lot of influence in a country like Afghanistan, but it also has influence throughout the Middle East.

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I know the treatment of women was an important element of Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State, and it can be all for all our leaders going forward.

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It's hard, when people criticize you, not to respond on social media. I should probably do a better job of not responding. But if someone says something that's untrue about me, I like to respond.

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I never worked in the private sector for very long, I worked on childcare, afterschool, health care for people, increasing the minimum wage, increasing taxes on the wealthy - a whole host of policies that are pretty progressive.

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