Quotes from Jill Biden

I feel that exercise really balances me. Then I layer on the other obligations that I have.

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

There's nothing that's more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn't belong.

People know Joe Biden. They've seen the strong parts of his character and how resilient he is.

Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.

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.

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.

A lot of students who are 18 or 19 go to college partly for the social aspect of it. At the community college, people's goals are a little different. Their needs are more immediate.

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.

The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.

The role I have always felt most at home in is being 'Dr. B.'

I am an educator.

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.

I'm an English teacher, so I'm used to reading and I'm used to reading out loud.