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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. "
William M. Daley
Opening
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" It sounds good to say, 'We're going to do this,' on C-SPAN, but try to do that in real life, and it's not going to work. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do. "
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" Commerce was the best job I could ever have. "
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Job
Best
" If we don't set the rules for commerce in the Asia-Pacific region, China will. "
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Region
Rules
" A chief of staff has to reflect the president's governing style. "
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Staff
" Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley. "
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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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College
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" I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors. "
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OK
Through
" 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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Fall
" There is no room for politics in the Commerce Department. "
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Room
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" 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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Strategy
Long
" Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times. "
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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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" No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" The reason CAFTA should be enacted is not economic benefits: it is national security. "
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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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" 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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" 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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