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" A chief of staff has to reflect the president's governing style. "

William M. Daley

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" When the manufacturing decline began in earnest in 2001, the main culprits were the offshoring of jobs to China, with which we have no trade deal, and automation. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times. "

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" It's been proven in Washington: It's very hard to negotiate and try to get a deal done in public. "

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" No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years. "

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" Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life's a little different. "

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" Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do. "

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" 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. "

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" There is no room for politics in the Commerce Department. "

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" 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. "

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" There's a growing sense among large corporations that to solve global problems like climate change, the responsibility can't fall just on the government. The business community has to be a big piece of that. "

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" Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley. "

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" Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it's emotional. It's not rocket science. "

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" There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system. "

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" There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports. "

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" Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government. "

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" There are 14 Cabinet spots, and God only knows how many hundreds of people want them. "

William M. Daley

" If we don't set the rules for commerce in the Asia-Pacific region, China will. "

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" I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors. "

William M. Daley

" While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system. "

William M. Daley

" Our focus must be on making America the best place on earth to do business. "

William M. Daley

" Sanders insists the party adopt 'the most progressive platform ever passed' at its Philadelphia convention. Since when does the runner-up get to dictate the platform? "

William M. Daley

" What comes into the Oval Office are not the good or easy decisions. The easy decisions are made elsewhere. The things that make it to the Oval are always the hard ones. "

William M. Daley

" The Republican establishment's 2008 embrace of Palin set an irresponsibly low bar. Coincidence or not, a batch of nonsense-spewing, hard-right candidates quickly followed, often to disastrous effect. "

William M. Daley

" 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. "

William M. Daley

" There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores. "

William M. Daley

" Whether McCain actively sought Palin in 2008 or passively yielded to aides' pressure, he set a new standard for GOP candidates who rely on lots of sizzle and little substance. "

William M. Daley