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" 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? "
William M. Daley
Philadelphia
Progressive
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" 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. "
William M. Daley
Progress
Business
American
" A chief of staff has to reflect the president's governing style. "
William M. Daley
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Style
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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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" 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
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" Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help. "
William M. Daley
Help
Voters
Elections
" Commerce was the best job I could ever have. "
William M. Daley
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Job
Best
" 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
Embrace
Bar
Republican
" Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it's emotional. It's not rocket science. "
William M. Daley
Science
People
Relationships
" There are 14 Cabinet spots, and God only knows how many hundreds of people want them. "
William M. Daley
Only
Want
People
" 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. "
William M. Daley
Effort
Just
Organization
" 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
" 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
" 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
" No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years. "
William M. Daley
He
Senate
Lived
" Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy. "
William M. Daley
Foreign Policy
Trade
Policy
" As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders. "
William M. Daley
Shareholders
Understand
Democrat
" 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.' "
William M. Daley
Election
Republican
Better
" 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
People
Office
Life
" While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system. "
William M. Daley
Bad
National
System
" 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
" There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports. "
William M. Daley
American
Prosperity
Path
" You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand. "
William M. Daley
Words
Where
Know
" 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. "
William M. Daley
More
Party
Salvation
" 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
Rules
Changes
Know
" While imperfect, the electoral college has generally served the republic well. It forces candidates to campaign in a variety of closely contested races, where political debate is typically robust. "
William M. Daley
Political
Debate
Republic
" 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. "
William M. Daley
American
People
Help
" Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley. "
William M. Daley
Rich
Think
Mayor
" There is no room for politics in the Commerce Department. "
William M. Daley
Politics
Room
Commerce
" 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. "
William M. Daley
Vote
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