Sylvia Mathews Burwell Quotes

#1. Banks can't recoup the costs of serving customers who save in small amounts and transact frequently.

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#2. While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

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#3. Across the globe, regardless of nationality or financial status, there is a common dream every mother has for her children - for them to live full, healthy and productive lives. As a mother, I share that dream for my children.

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#4. Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day.

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#5. Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.

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#6. Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build reserves for a rainy day.

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#7. Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.

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#8. In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.

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#9. In one month, the Small Business Administration does $1 billion of loans and guarantees for businesses; many of those are women-owned businesses.

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#10. At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.

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#11. Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.

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#12. Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.

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#13. Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

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#14. When nonprofits, companies and consumers work together, we believe we can make long term, positive change for the millions of people in America who struggle with hunger.

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#15. There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

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#16. One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.

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#17. 'Putting People First' was progressivism revived and at its best.

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#18. Can we have a conversation about the substance? That's what I welcome. We're happy to have those conversations if there are places where people think there can be improvements. We want competition in the system, so let's talk about that.

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#19. My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.

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#20. Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.

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#21. Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.

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#22. Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

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#23. As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

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#24. Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season.

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#25. No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.

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#26. When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.

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#27. Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.

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#28. In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.'

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#29. Certainly it is much easier to think about negotiating and having deals when there is a singular represented point of view. That pretty much is a given.

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#30. To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

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#31. I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

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