I think it's important how I come across to my students. I want them to see how professional women dress.
— Jill Biden
I feel that exercise really balances me. Then I layer on the other obligations that I have.
Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.
I guess the White House is kind of confining.
Well, I'm a runner, and I have to run with Secret Service - even though they can run twice as fast. It took me a while to get used to running with them, because I love the solitary aspect of it. So I have two rules. First, I can't hear their feet. And second, I can't see their shadows.
We need good reading programs, and we need equity in schools.
Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.
So many people in my life need prayers, and I feel like I owe that to them. After all, in heaven, we feed each other.
Not only had I not expected a random call from Joe Biden, but I could never have imagined he would make that call to ask me out. I've been asked if I was starstruck by the fact that a U.S. senator thought I was worth a call, but I honestly wasn't. I was flattered that someone I'd heard of was interested.
Community colleges are the way of the future.
We have asked a lot of our military families and I believe they deserve the very best efforts of each of us to show them how much we appreciate their service to our country.
Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.
I have visited classrooms near military bases to learn more about what schools were doing to support their military kids. I met with teachers overseas to learn about the particular needs they face thousands of miles from America. And I listened to my own granddaughter, who dealt with her father's yearlong deployment to Iraq.
I grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, with my parents and sisters, but my family would drive every weekend to Hammonton, where both my grandparents lived and where my parents were raised.
As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.
Life is change.
For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.
I loved teaching English and giving my students confidence.
I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls' education.
Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.
I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it's my job to teach them to write well. I hope my students say I'm a fair teacher.
When I go to the supermarket, I can see people looking in my cart. So I have to be careful what I buy and when. I send my sister to Costco to pick up the personal items.
Most women I know have been harassed in some way. And you never wanted to report it, because you were afraid of losing your job or you felt like, hey, did that just happen? I think it's good that women now... have the courage! Because it's not easy.
Well, when I'm out running, people don't recognize me, which is great. I don't feel pressure; I'm not out to beat anybody or hit a certain time. I just do it for the enjoyment of it. I'm doing it for myself.
I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.
We've seen the struggle, and we know that most American families are dealing with some sort of struggle like we are. And I think they can relate to us, you know, as parents who are hopeful and are supportive of our son, and we will continue to be supportive. And I think that makes us more empathetic about helping other Americans.
It sounds so trite to say I make a difference, but I really feel, especially in a community college, I can make a difference.
We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.
My students have shown me so many times that it's not always about being the perfect person in the perfect position - it's about showing up when you're needed.
Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.
I had a number of part-time jobs after school in Willow Grove, but I did work for two summers in Ocean City as a waitress at Chris' Seafood Restaurant. I loved it.
I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.
The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.
Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.
I'm good at separating things. When I'm in my classroom, I'm totally there. When I'm at an event, I'm totally there. And when I'm with my grandkids, my total attention is on them.
There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there and grade papers on the floor.
Education is possibility set in motion.
I'm not a politician. I am an English teacher.
People know Joe Biden. They've seen the strong parts of his character and how resilient he is.
I think that running creates a sense of balance in my life. And it really calms me down.
What's on my iPod? Well, certainly Bruce Springsteen.
Since Beau's death, I'm definitely shattered. I feel like a piece of china that's been glued back together again. The cracks may be imperceptible-but they're there. Look closely, and you can see the glue holding me together, the precarious edges that vein through my heart. I am not the same. I feel it every day.
The American people know Joe Biden. They know his values. They know what he stands for.
Every day, women and girls are finding incredible confidence and taking risks. When they change one mind, pretty soon, they have changed one tradition. That changed tradition has changed a village. That one village has changed a country. That new reality means new opportunities for themselves and their daughters.
We can end cancer as we know it.
May God bless our troops.
As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.
I remember my grandmother taking me and my sisters to the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. We would watch the diving bell and see the diving horse jump into the pool. We would take the bus there, and I just smile thinking about all of us running around the pier on those days.
There were times when I actually prayed not to get married.
We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.
