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" Our focus must be on making America the best place on earth to do business. "
William M. Daley
Focus
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" The reason CAFTA should be enacted is not economic benefits: it is national security. "
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" Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do. "
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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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" The chief of staff has to reflect and sometimes complement the strengths of the president he serves. "
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Sometimes
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" I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services. "
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" 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. "
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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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Opening
American
People
" Party leaders aren't responsible for every candidate's gaffe. "
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Candidate
Leaders
" Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life's a little different. "
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People
Office
Life
" While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system. "
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National
System
" 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. "
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Progress
Business
American
" 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? "
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Progressive
Party
" 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. "
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Some People
People
Game
" Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government. "
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Working
Life
Government
" You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand. "
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Words
Where
Know
" 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. "
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Rules
Changes
Know
" 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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Embrace
Bar
Republican
" In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once. "
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Vote
Home
Opinion
" 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
" Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy. "
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Foreign Policy
Trade
Policy
" 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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Politician
You
Different
" 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
" 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
Attractive
Company
" A chief of staff has to reflect the president's governing style. "
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President
Style
Staff
" There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports. "
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Prosperity
Path
" Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help. "
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Help
Voters
Elections
" I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors. "
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Academic
OK
Through
" 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. "
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Creation
Strategy
Long
" If we don't set the rules for commerce in the Asia-Pacific region, China will. "
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Region
Rules