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" I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time. "
Elaine Chao
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" I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American work force and the modernization of decades-old regulations have been among our top priorities. "
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Priorities
Labor
American
" The Obama administration's zeal to not 'waste a good crisis,' as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it, has been stunning even for Washington insiders to behold. "
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Crisis
Zeal
Waste
" 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. "
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Future
Fear
Business
" 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. "
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Landscape
Planning
Retirement
" Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion. "
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Economic
Credit
Expansion
" Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth. "
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Month
New
Country
" In normal times, laid-off workers are unemployed an average of eight weeks. "
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Unemployed
Average
Workers
" I am not seeking any position in a Dole Administration. "
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Administration
I Am
Seeking
" Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there. "
Elaine Chao
Work
She
School
" What out country is facing right now is a skills gap. "
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Gap
Now
Out
" 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. "
Elaine Chao
Home
Create
Progress
" Activists have every right to espouse their views of utopia. "
Elaine Chao
Right
Views
Activists
" I know that some people, when they are growing up and they - as a person of color in a majority community - that they may feel as if they are left out, or they feel a bit strange. "
Elaine Chao
Community
Growing Up
People
" European-style interventions to which the Obama administration is inclined will not make America more competitive in the world-wide economy. Such policies will not increase growth, will not decrease unemployment, and will not increase wages for workers. "
Elaine Chao
Unemployment
Growth
Economy
" Perhaps the original layaway angel knew from experience, or simply deduced, that people resorting to the old-fashioned installment method of layaway may be struggling financially. "
Elaine Chao
Original
May
Experience
" We have many rules and regulations that can be sometimes confusing and complicated. By reaching out to the employer community and educating them on what their responsibilities and obligations are to their work force, that, along, with strong enforcement, is the best way to protect workers. "
Elaine Chao
Best
Community
Rules
" America's private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way. "
Elaine Chao
Way
Lead
Job
" America's competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force. "
Elaine Chao
Human
Doing
Talent
" There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs. "
Elaine Chao
Jobs
Should
Regulations
" Outside of Washington, D.C., most Americans aren't concerned with doing things 'big.' They're looking for less government spending, lower taxes, and good jobs. "
Elaine Chao
Doing
Good
Government
" 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. "
Elaine Chao
Reform
Cost
Tax
" When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers. "
Elaine Chao
Only
First
Congress
" The OPPA route is nothing new. It follows the decades-old liberal agenda on trade, health care, global warming, and mass unionization. That agenda has never brought prosperity to workers. "
Elaine Chao
New
Trade
Nothing
" 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. "
Elaine Chao
Memories
Girl
Life
" 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. "
Elaine Chao
Find
Trying
Track
" The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education. "
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New
Skills
Higher
" 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. "
Elaine Chao
Creation
America
Boat
" Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation. "
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Elected
Need
Isolation
" Even if it's a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers. "
Elaine Chao
Government
Cannot
Answers
" Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest. "
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Costs
Energy
America