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" A chief of staff has to reflect the president's governing style. "
President
Style
Staff
" As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders. "
Shareholders
Understand
Democrat
" As commerce secretary, I led the Clinton administration's effort to ensure China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the permanent normalization of trade between the U.S. and China - steps that produced a 76 percent increase in U.S. exports to China in just three years. "
Effort
Just
Organization
" As president, you can't just say, 'I want this,' or, 'Do that.' A president has to lead the American people to where he wants to go, and the chief of staff needs to help him get it done. "
Help
People
Say
" Bernie Sanders is making a big and potentially dangerous mistake with his continuing insistence on changes to the Democratic Party's rules and platform. I should know. As chairman of Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, I understand too well where such ideological stubbornness can lead. "
Rules
Changes
Know
" Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government. "
Working
Life
Government
" Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times. "
Business
View
Show
" Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help. "
Help
Voters
Elections
" Commerce was the best job I could ever have. "
Ever
Job
Best
" Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley. "
Rich
Think
Mayor
" If anything, the Democrats' salvation may lie in the fact that Republicans seem even more hell-bent on allowing their radical wing to drag the party away from the center. "
More
Party
Salvation
" If we don't set the rules for commerce in the Asia-Pacific region, China will. "
Commerce
Region
Rules
" I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors. "
Academic
OK
Through
" I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services. "
American
People
Help
" Illinois needs a real strategy for job creation that grows the economy over the long term with high-wage jobs that rebuild the middle class. "
Creation
Strategy
Long
" In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once. "
Vote
Home
Opinion
" It's been proven in Washington: It's very hard to negotiate and try to get a deal done in public. "
Deal
Been
Try
" It's logical and fair to allow only registered or self-identified Democrats to choose their party's nominee (although numerous states do have open primaries). Letting more non-Democrats choose the nominee doesn't guarantee success in a November general election. And it does nothing to encourage people to join and work for the party. "
Success
Election
Work
" It sounds good to say, 'We're going to do this,' on C-SPAN, but try to do that in real life, and it's not going to work. "
Try
Work
Good
" I was Al Gore's campaign chairman in 2000, when he won a half-million more votes than George W. Bush but lost the presidency. "
Campaign
More
Presidency
" Lots of people throw around phrases of 'no-fly zone,' and they talk about it as though it's just a game - a video game or something. Some people who throw that line out have no idea what they're talking about. "
Some People
People
Game
" Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult. "
Pen
Talk
People
" Most Republicans and the business community extol the virtues of trade, depicting it as an engine of economic progress, while most Democrats and unions attack the exportation of American jobs, claiming that trade agreements are destroying our economy. "
Progress
Business
American
" No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years. "
He
Senate
Lived
" Now that Donald Trump has won the presidency despite losing the popular vote, there's a growing cry to rethink, or even abolish, the electoral college. This would be a mistake. "
Mistake
College
Growing
" Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life's a little different. "
People
Office
Life
" Our focus must be on making America the best place on earth to do business. "
Focus
Best
Place
" Palin's blatant lack of competence and preparedness needs no belaboring. What's critical is that substantive, serious Republican leaders either wouldn't or couldn't declare, before or after the election, 'This is not what our party stands for. We can and must do better.' "
Election
Republican
Better
" Party leaders aren't responsible for every candidate's gaffe. "
Responsible
Candidate
Leaders
" Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it's emotional. It's not rocket science. "
Science
People
Relationships
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