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" My parents were very, very strict parents, and they were not used to this new, you know, American custom of letting your children sleep in someone else's house. "

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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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" For any trade deal to move forward, there has to be agreement. "

" We need fair and free trade. "

" It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a president who worked hard to unshackle growth in the private sector. "

" 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. "

" It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need. "

" There are many reasons to worry; the evening news is full of them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We have a lot of employers who are looking for skilled workers and not being able to find them. And we have workers who lack the requisite skills to access these good-paying jobs in high growth industries. "

" 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. "

" Every person - we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one. "

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

Elaine Chao

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Time

" Washington's parasitic approach to the private sector must change for there to be widespread, near-term and enduring prosperity and job creation. "

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

" 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. "

" The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention. "

" When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers. "

" Progress is being made, but a lot of women are realizing it is not what they envisioned. "

" The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth. "

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

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

" Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion. "

" In normal times, laid-off workers are unemployed an average of eight weeks. "

" I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country. "

" 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. "