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" 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
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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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" No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years. "
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" When the manufacturing decline began in earnest in 2001, the main culprits were the offshoring of jobs to China, with which we have no trade deal, and automation. "
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" The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact. "
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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. "
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" Party leaders aren't responsible for every candidate's gaffe. "
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" Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do. "
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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. "
William M. Daley
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" 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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" 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
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Changes
Know
" 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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" Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s. "
William M. Daley
Back
World
Some People
" 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. "
William M. Daley
Look
Attractive
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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. "
William M. Daley
Change
Community
Fall
" Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government. "
William M. Daley
Working
Life
Government
" There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores. "
William M. Daley
Days
Want
Move
" Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it's emotional. It's not rocket science. "
William M. Daley
Science
People
Relationships
" 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
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People
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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
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Always
Office
" 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. "
William M. Daley
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" As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders. "
William M. Daley
Shareholders
Understand
Democrat
" Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley. "
William M. Daley
Rich
Think
Mayor
" 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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" Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times. "
William M. Daley
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" As president, you can't just say, 'I want this,' or, 'Do that.' A president has to lead the American people to where he wants to go, and the chief of staff needs to help him get it done. "
William M. Daley
Help
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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. "
William M. Daley
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" If we don't set the rules for commerce in the Asia-Pacific region, China will. "
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Region
Rules
" There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports. "
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