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It May Be Hard To Remember How Difficult It Was For People To Talk About Hiv/aids Back In The 1980's And Because Of Both Ronald Reagan And Nancy Reagan - In Particular Mrs Reagan - We Started A National Conversation, When Before Nobody Would Talk About It, Nobody Wanted To Do Anything About It. Something That I Really Appreciate Was Her Very Effective But Low-key Advocacy, But It Penetrated The Public Conscience, And People Began To Say "hey We Have To Do Something About This Too.

I Believe American Corporations That Have Gotten So Much From Our Country Should Be Just As Patriotic In Return. Many Of Them Are, But Too Many Aren't. It's Wrong To Take Tax Breaks With One Hand And Give Out Pink Slips With The Other. And I Believe Wall Street Can Never, Ever Be Allowed To Wreck Main Street Again.

Yes, We've Cut The Maternal Mortality Rate In Half, But Far Too Many Women Are Still Denied Critical Access To Reproductive Health Care And Safe Childbirth, And Laws Don't Count For Much If They're Not Enforced. Rights Have To Exist In Practice - Not Just On Paper. Laws Have To Be Backed Up With Resources And Political Will. And Deep-seated Cultural Codes, Religious Beliefs And Structural Biases Have To Be Changed.

I Had Often Joked In My Speeches That I Had Imaginary Conversations With Mrs. Roosevelt To Solicit Her Advice On A Range Of Subjects. It's Actually A Useful Mental Exercise To Help Analyze Problems, Provided You Choose The Right Person To Visualize. Eleanor Roosevelt Was Ideal.

Everything That Happens In America Happens In New York.