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"“The way he treated me, refusing to wear a mask, even when I told him I had a serious medical condition, shows his character and temperament is not appropriate to be our top medical professional.”"

"“If you have anything that you are doubting, please go check it out. Because anything that feels strange needs to be looked at.”"

"“We must address this critical shortage of mental health professionals which is even more acute because of increasing need across our state. We are in a crisis and we need this quick action to attract more students to the field.”"

"“It’s time for this unconstitutional, illegal statute (to come) off the books and say to the LGBTQ community that we support your marriages.”"

"“We got along pretty well and everybody kind of pulled together as a class … Because in training I think we were all in the same boat. We were all trying to prove ourselves.”"

"“I honestly didn’t see myself as a pioneer. It was just a role that I was fortunate enough to become a part of.”"

"“I was looking for something to do after leaving the convent and this was an opportunity that presented itself.”"

"Most people back then didn’t even realize the F.B.I. had female agents. Many times a subject would simply open the door when I knocked, not expecting me to say, ‘F.B.I.’."

"Filing that lawsuit was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life, because the great majority of my feelings toward the F.B.I., and the people I worked with, are good feelings."

"In training we were all in the same boat. We were all trying to prove ourselves."

"I wasn’t really scared at the time. But afterwards, when I had time to think about it, it scared me a bit. But it didn’t discourage me from the job."

"We were kept pure for men, and then broken in by them. And what happened to us in the meantime was completely irrelevant in the pursuit of their pleasure, or their integrity, their masculinity. Were females really valued so little? Would my own daughters face the same fate?"

"Without hope, my life, my path, my journey, my accomplishments would not even exist,"

"I think it’s important to focus on what people have to achieve to be in the roles that they’re in. Being a professor at Stanford is a journey, and there have only been two other women in the whole of the neurosciences that have received that distinction — and none of them were Black. So it’s an arduous journey."

"I'm an incredibly optimistic person. Yes, I'm very hopeful. I believe that hope has to be coupled with opportunity. We can't just rest on hope. We can't just say, 'This is getting better. Things are getting better.'"

"When you’re assigned something that you feel is a dead end, that is really going to take time away from your goal of being promoted,” Harris said. ”[Adler] taught me to say ‘no’ in a way that is effective."

"Every analysis of increased tariffs, both those we have published at The Budget Lab and from others, finds the same thing: tariffs make Americans poorer. American consumers pay the cost of tariffs in the form of higher prices."

"Tackling waste, fraud, and abuse would mean going to the agencies that administer spending themselves — not the BFS."

"These are achievable goals. While the challenges we face are significant, they are not insurmountable."

"I believe there are a number of similarities, common struggles to change social attitude. But, unlike the racial struggle, the LGBT community, for the most part, has had the option of the closet – to stay hidden, to live the lie. And, I think in the long run, that has lengthened our struggle. Without that option, we would have had to fight harder and sooner."

"My next book will be a prequel to Under the Witness Tree. I never say never, but I don’t foresee featuring these three characters again."

"What is unfortunate is that our community is still embattled, facing ongoing challenges to our rights and security. I would think that as long as those exist, there will be a need and opportunity for me to write stories of how those struggles effect our lives."

"I have a couple of things niggling my mind. One, partly fueled by the importance of the women’s vote in the recent election, is to explore the history of our fight for the vote. Another is the problem of animal neglect and overwhelmed animal shelters. Of course, these issues will have to explored by characters in a storyline that balances love, hope, and social consciousness. I just can’t seem to help it."

"As I said, my next project is a prequel to Under the Witness Tree. I fell in love with Nessie Tinker. Nessie was a 90+ year old black supporting character who challenged me to know more about her and where she came from. I wanted to know what her life would have been like growing up in Georgia in the 1900’s. What were her dreams and hopes, her disappointments? And, what of love, between two young women, one black and one white? This next book is the result of that curiosity and search."

"I am currently a member of the Youth Motivation Task Force Advisory Board at Alabama A&M University (AAMU)."

"To be honest, physics was one of my most difficult subjects, but I was impressed by my college physics professor, Dr. M.C. George."

"SPORT is the first project I have worked that I will be able to see from beginning to end, so right now, I am focused on assuring that it will be successful."

"Eight years after starting the Ph.D., while working full time, giving birth to two children, staying active in my church and public service organization, and keeping my husband happy enough not to leave me, I finished my Ph.D. in Physics making me the first African American Female in the State of Alabama to earn a Ph.D. in Physics."

"I've always been driven toward the mission and vision of helping find effective, environmentally friendly pest management products and saving the planet at the same time."

"I wanted to be an entomologist since I was about 8 years old “I saw all the trees getting ruined by these caterpillars. My father used a chemical to kill them on a prized dogwood outside the kitchen window [but] it killed all the good bugs – lady beetles, lacewings, honeybees and so forth."

"That’s the whole story of my career, That's my passion, finding science-based products that work and that offer farmers and other customers a value proposition compared to chemical pesticides."

"A lot of professors from different schools said they didn't want to take women because women would just have children, and that would disrupt the Ph.D. Both at Cornell and at NC State, I had really good professors,“They were very supportive of me."

". “I had to be an entrepreneur because I want to solve problems and have practical applications,"

"I remember that the advanced calculus course was taught by a graduate student and met at 7 A.M. every morning, and not only was I the only woman, I was the only black in the class. I sat right next to the door and I was truly isolated. I had no one to talk to in the class; even though there were two other girls in the class, they avoided me like I was some sort of plague, because if you're not a white woman, you can't associate with anybody except maybe handicapped men."

"Was my vacuum created because I was black or female or both?"

"She just explained to me that this was the way the world was, and we had to accept it, and there was nothing we can do about it, and we had to just sit there and adjust to it."

"This award is especially gratifying to me in view of the success of my initiative on advancing the IEEE transnational frontier in Eastern Europe, particularly in Russia"

"And that’s only accelerating,It's great to be connected to a business that is committed to new ideas and innovation.”"

"I am the Global Head of Investment and Client Solutions and CIO of the Solutions and Multi Asset Group within the Investment Management division. Our business has a number of different businesses within it, but at the core, we are focused on solving problems for clients and not only developing investing strategies."

"In order to do that, you need a very good platform with a lot of resources. And you then need to put those resources together in flexible ways to deliver solutions. We do that in a number of contexts. Not everything is so customized—we do have products. But those products are inspired by client problems."

"I spend time on both the investment side and the client side, trying to think about ways to bridge them. I'm very involved with some of our largest clients, both institutional and high-net-worth individual clients. While we work on customized investment strategies, we also provide value to our clients beyond just the investments. It's not just managing a client’s assets, it's supporting them outside of investing, such as providing content, ideas and access to others within the firm."

"We are very cognizant of what is going on throughout the investment world. We're constantly looking at markets, looking at innovations in finance, scanning the latest research and connecting them to specific client situation."

"We want to provide a solution, but we first need new tools to help us better understand the problem. So we have to go and find or develop techniques to do that."

"Our clients’ problems can be complex, so we have to think critically and creatively about how we are going to solve them."

"Our team is made up of investors and analysts who have diverse background, and we use that to our advantage, gathering information from a variety of sources. Ideas can come out of academia like using data or analytics in new ways. Ideas may also come from our clients. For example, a client may come to us to find a way to generate income on a portfolio that integrates a particular liquidity and cashflow profile. We develop a solution for them and then may realize that it can be tailored to help us solve the needs of another client."

"I first worked as a management consultant after graduating from college. I was living in Australia at the time and enjoying it, but I knew I wanted to go back to school. I decided to pursue a doctorate in political science. While I was in graduate school, I also received a master's degree in economics."

"I entered academia on a tenure track at the University of California at Berkeley, while continuing to consult on projects. That led to consulting work for the asset management business of a major bank, which was trying to solve some investment problems for their own portfolios and for clients. I was coming at it from a slightly different angle, as a social scientist rather than just a pure finance guy. And we had some success. I think my different perspective helped me and my team develop ideas that had some traction. So I kept consulting while I was on the faculty at U.C. Berkeley. I had been consulting for Morgan Stanley for several years when the bank offered me the full-time position I have now."

"We work with clients to achieve their mission beyond just trying to maximize their wealth. For example, we have one client who had a significant liquidity event and she wants to donate her money eventually. But while she's in the process of doing that, she wants the investments to make money and have a particular social impact. The ability to help a client have a positive impact on the world is very fulfilling."

"We also work for large public pension funds. I relate to this as a former employee of the state of California. You realize in this role that you work for firemen and teachers and you have something beyond a fiduciary duty. These people are depending on your performance. Delivering that is rewarding."

"We need our team members to be flexible in their thinking and flexible about ideas and functions. The people who work on our teams are experts in certain fields but are able to engage very rigorously on the investment side, analyzing investments, understanding them, identifying new ideas. They also understand how to engage with our clients."