Donna Brazile Quotes

I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help.

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, hundreds of thousands have been left homeless, displaced, and broken.

My mom is from New Orleans. And all of my maternal relatives were there during Katrina. We couldn't even find my uncle for four months. We literally didn't know where he was. I had been there just four days before the storm hit.

My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

There was this conflict within me because so many people would come up to me to ask for prayers for all sorts of things, and 50% would be about money like, 'How can I pay for the tuition fee of my kids?' And I could only pray for them. I had no advice to give them because I didn't know anything about money.

One thing we're doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were formerly middle-class.

Unfortunately, this will have a ripple effect in the economy. People carrying heavy student-loan debt won't buy houses, start families, or start businesses. This will hurt the future economy.

No military or veteran family should have to choose between paying their bills and being together while one of our nation's heroes is in the hospital.

My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could buy Fernandez, my first grand prix horse.

It is also our responsibility to fulfill our promises to our veterans, to help those in need, and to support their strength and resilience. Ensuring that we take care of them and their families is a responsibility entrusted to all of us.

I've always played that role in my family: the breadwinner.

When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of death in the US.

Immediately after hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, I was extremely concerned about my family, friends and all the people in Puerto Rico. I felt helpless and could not concentrate not knowing if my family and loved ones were safe. I wanted to help my people as fast as I could.

I was once that kid that needed a donation - that needed help to go to camp because my mom wasn't able to pay for it.

I got a family to take care of and kids to feed. That's my motivation, this is my job.

It always seems to me that my life would look completely different if I didn't have to take care of the rent.

We need to protect people with pre-existing conditions, and we need to make sure that we have a safety net for people that can't take care of themselves.

The only thing that gives my mom pleasure in life is buying stuff off QVC, and I'm gonna pay those bills. I paid my mom's house off. My wife's family needs help? I'm gonna take care of that.

I'm fortunate enough to take care of my family and provide for them, and that motivates me to keep going.

My parents divorced, my brothers and I ended up living with my mother, and we were living with the choice of heating or eating. My mum was working, but she needed financial support to make ends meet. I had to have free school dinners and free school uniforms.

My dad lost his father when he was nine and ran away from home to come to Mumbai to feed his mother and his three siblings.

My goal after 9/11 was to take care of the families of the people we lost, and that was the most important thing.

I never had the help of money in the background - it could be the cherry on the top a little bit - whereas some others had that to offer.

I've been through so much, especially coming from New Orleans where there was Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I had to pick up. We had to move, make new friends, and I think my family was just strong for me as well because we had to start completely over again.