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" Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult. "
William M. Daley
Pen
Talk
People
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" The chief of staff has to reflect and sometimes complement the strengths of the president he serves. "
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" Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help. "
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" If we don't set the rules for commerce in the Asia-Pacific region, China will. "
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" Our focus must be on making America the best place on earth to do business. "
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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. "
William M. Daley
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" 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. "
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College
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" 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. "
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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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" The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact. "
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" 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
Easy
Always
Office
" Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy. "
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" While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system. "
William M. Daley
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National
System
" Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times. "
William M. Daley
Business
View
Show
" We can't give the impression to our allies or friends in Asia that because the president is against TPP... that therefore, economically, we're going to pull away from Asia. "
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Against
Going
" Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do. "
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Young
Them
Election
" 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.' "
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Election
Republican
Better
" It's been proven in Washington: It's very hard to negotiate and try to get a deal done in public. "
William M. Daley
Deal
Been
Try
" 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. "
William M. Daley
Some People
People
Game
" 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
Rely
New
Little
" 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. "
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Him
Big
He
" 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. "
William M. Daley
Success
Election
Work
" Party leaders aren't responsible for every candidate's gaffe. "
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Responsible
Candidate
Leaders
" 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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More
Party
Salvation
" 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. "
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Look
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Company
" 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. "
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Effort
Just
Organization
" I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors. "
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OK
Through
" 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. "
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You
Different
" There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports. "
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American
Prosperity
Path
" Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s. "
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Back
World
Some People