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" Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service. "
Elaine Chao
Health
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Only
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" 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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Zeal
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" 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
" 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. "
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Create
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" Taxpayers should demand that their states honestly assess public pension plans, accurately measure the assets and liabilities, and take steps to provide fair benefits to public employees that limit taxpayers' liability. "
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Measure
Plans
Employees
" Typically, after moving backwards, the economy takes even more steps forward. "
Elaine Chao
Moving
Economy
Forward
" We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers. "
Elaine Chao
Rights
Way
Want
" Those memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound understanding of the challenges of economic development - an understanding which will make my tenure as Peace Corps director, I hope, a very special one. "
Elaine Chao
I Am
Hope
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" If we did not have Obamacare, we could've addressed the healthcare crisis in a comprehensive but segmented fashion - meaning that we could have promoted a health savings plan. We could've pushed for tort reform, which added so much more cost to healthcare. "
Elaine Chao
Health
Healthcare
Meaning
" 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. "
Elaine Chao
Left-Wing
Power
Seek
" In the best of years, millions of jobs are lost. "
Elaine Chao
Jobs
Years
Best
" The Democratic Party's governing elite has long believed there is no problem that European-style policies cannot cure. "
Elaine Chao
Cure
Elite
Long
" When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty. "
Elaine Chao
Mother
Liberty
Boat
" 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. "
Elaine Chao
Training
Need
Job
" 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. "
Elaine Chao
Celebrate
History
Rest
" In campaigns, lots of things will be said, and what they have said about my husband is just simply not true. "
Elaine Chao
True
Said
Just
" My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America. "
Elaine Chao
First
America
Los Angeles
" America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to being saddled with paying off today's federal deficits. "
Elaine Chao
Future
New
Today
" News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 media environment is wonderful in many ways, it can also be like drinking out of a fire hose and intensify a downward reinforcing cycle of despair. "
Elaine Chao
Environment
Fire
Serious
" What out country is facing right now is a skills gap. "
Elaine Chao
Gap
Now
Out
" Progress is being made, but a lot of women are realizing it is not what they envisioned. "
Elaine Chao
Women
Being
Made
" 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
" 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
" I am not seeking any position in a Dole Administration. "
Elaine Chao
Administration
I Am
Seeking
" To maintain their own competitiveness, workers need to attain and stay current on the qualifications needed to advance in a constantly evolving economy. "
Elaine Chao
Own
Stay
Workers
" 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
" 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
" Even if it's a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers. "
Elaine Chao
Government
Cannot
Answers
" Because of these layaway angels, many children did not have to wonder why Santa skipped them in 2011. "
Elaine Chao
Why
Because
Children
" Even a healthy economy and labor market would have struggled under the additional expenses enacted and proposed in 2009 and 2010 - from healthcare mandates and higher taxes, to carbon cap-and-trade and delay in extending the last decade's tax reforms. "
Elaine Chao
Healthy
Economy
Tax
" The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education. "
Elaine Chao
New
Skills
Higher