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" For significant job creation to occur, prospective entrepreneurs and current business owners must not fear the future or be under assault from their own government in the present. "

Elaine Chao

Future

Fear

Business

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" As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, 'What a wonderful country.' "

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" We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism. "

" As we celebrate Women's History Month this March, it's important to remember the key role women have played in promoting a better understanding and relationships between our country and the rest of the world. "

" There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs. "

" Never far from my thoughts are memories of being a little girl in Queens, N.Y., our family of five crowded in a small one-bedroom apartment, struggling to learn English and survive a new life in a new country, America. We humbly and gratefully still recall the kindnesses shown by strangers and neighbors who became new friends. "

" 401k savings accounts have become so important in the landscape of retirement planning that their security and expansion became a top priority in formulating and implementing the Pension Protection Act of 2006 that was enacted during my tenure as the U.S. Secretary of Labor. "

" I love working in the garden. "

" Employers should overcome a myopic quarterly earnings posture and focus on long-term strategies for growth that include investing in their own skills-training efforts to enable a broader pool of applicants. "

" Activist shareholder resolutions do not have to pass to succeed. The process itself can be so injurious to a company that management will cave to demands. "

" Though the National Bureau of Economic Research deemed the recession to have ended in June 2009, to most Americans, that conclusion seems not to square with reality. "

" Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest. "

" The Obama administration likes to say that it is 'pro-worker.' But something is amiss when its labor priorities are forcing unionization and labor contracts on American workplaces, and denying union members information on how their dues money is spent. "

" Even if it's a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers. "

" Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors such as pension funds, whose managers are supposed to focus strictly on their fiduciary responsibilities to retirees. "

" To better deal with shortages of qualified applicants now and in the future, government policy makers need to acknowledge that government job training programs could stand improvement. "

" We need long-term tax reform that promotes private sector job creation. And legislated mandates that kill jobs by raising the cost of payrolls need to be eliminated. "

" Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began - in 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981 - employment was on average 4.7% higher than the pre-recession peak. "

" To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector. "

" As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be worse: They could be trying to find a job without a college degree. "

" In campaigns, lots of things will be said, and what they have said about my husband is just simply not true. "

" President Obama has been admirably pro-trade in public remarks, but there has been no progress in moving any new free trade agreements to expand exports abroad and create jobs at home. "

" The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in America has been a gravy boat inside the Beltway. "

" People can voice their different points of view. We are also a country where there will be criticism. "