- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Firsthand Quotes
Seen up close, understood completely.
These lines all share one idea: some understanding only comes from seeing something up close, whether that is poverty in childhood or a community's own local Business impact.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We saw firsthand how a collapsed bridge in Skagit County impacted our local economy, which is why we must fix our infrastructure now before it's more expensive to maintain in the future.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.
- Complexities
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was first lady, I worked to call attention to the plight of refugees fleeing Cambodia for Thailand, I visited Thailand and witnessed firsthand the trauma of parents and children separated by circumstance beyond their control.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the Midwest, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, who, as a young widow running a small business in 1920s Kansas City, had known firsthand the old Pendergast regime and its classic combine of politics and organized crime.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother was a single mother. My mother's a single mother, and I have four daughters. I've experienced firsthand the challenges of what it is to be a single mother. And many of those challenges are challenges that, if we all just got together and worked together and thought about it together, we could help solve.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have experienced firsthand the tremendous impact breast cancer has on the women who fight it and the loved ones who support them. This is a disease that catches you unaware and, without the right resources, leaves you feeling frightened and alone.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having played in the league during the '80s, '90s, and the new millennium (old, I know), I had the chance to see firsthand how the best point guards of our time played the game.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020