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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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" 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. "

William M. Daley

Rules

Changes

Know

" While imperfect, the electoral college has generally served the republic well. It forces candidates to campaign in a variety of closely contested races, where political debate is typically robust. "

" 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. "

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

" Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s. "

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

" When a state offers your company an attractive package of incentives to relocate, you have to look at it, and if it significantly boosts your bottom line, you have to take it or answer to your investors. "

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

" You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand. "

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

" Trump is a different politician. He was a different businessman. His campaign was different. What you saw in his campaign is what you're going to see in his presidency. "

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

William M. Daley

Senate

Lived

" 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. "

" As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders. "

" 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.' "

" The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help. "

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

" 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. "

William M. Daley

Campaign

Presidency

" President Obama came into office in '08 with the belief that - and the public's belief in him - that he was moderate, that he wasn't a big spender. "

William M. Daley

Him

Big

" Commerce was the best job I could ever have. "

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

" 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. "

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

William M. Daley

Academic

Through