By Evelyn Bailey
Human dignity is a right, not a privilege, a right inherited at birth.”
The goal of all governments should be to create a social environment in which every person can reach their full potential.
I’m not a woman who just happens to be an Assistant to the President…I’m an Assistant to the President who just happens to be a woman.
The White House should be the president’s window to the nation, a place where the people can voice what they want, what they feel and what they need.
When anybody’s rights are threatened; nobody’s rights are secure.
We cannot expect government to guarantee equal results- but…we can expect government to provide and guarantee equal opportunity.
When we start electing and appointing mediocre women-then, and only then, we will achieve total equality with men.
The right to choose your own destiny- it’s not what you choose that merits respect; it’s the right to make that choice.
I have come a long way. Was it because I earned it? I don’t know. Is it because I had opportunities that kinda fell before me, and I made the right choices? I don’t know. All I know is, I’m very proud to have participated in my life. I feel that I’ve never wasted it or disrespected this opportunity of making choices and going as far as I can.
A daughter of Italian immigrants from Rochester, New York, who never went to college, and I say to those people who ask if I’m qualified to make comments or to call myself a leader, I say to them: Out of 23 million Americans in the United States, the president asked me to help him serve and run the most powerful government in the world. I think I’m qualified.