By TIME Video
“Pat Walker,” says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker of his mother, “taught her children that they could do and be anything.”
Named by TIME as one of the most influential people for 2014, Walker raised a toast in honor of mothers everywhere, especially those who teach us “that to do well in life, we need to find ways to do good for others.”
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