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" There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports. "

William M. Daley

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" I was Al Gore's campaign chairman in 2000, when he won a half-million more votes than George W. Bush but lost the presidency. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years. "

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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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" 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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" Party leaders aren't responsible for every candidate's gaffe. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" Commerce was the best job I could ever have. "

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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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" 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. "

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" It's been proven in Washington: It's very hard to negotiate and try to get a deal done in public. "

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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. "

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" There are 14 Cabinet spots, and God only knows how many hundreds of people want them. "

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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. "

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" 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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" 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 room for politics in the Commerce Department. "

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" 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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" 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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" Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it's emotional. It's not rocket science. "

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" Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do. "

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" Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help. "

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" I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors. "

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