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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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" 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

" The reason CAFTA should be enacted is not economic benefits: it is national security. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult. "

" 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. "

" Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government. "

" Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy. "

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

William M. Daley

Senate

Lived

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

William M. Daley

Campaign

Presidency

" As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders. "

" Our focus must be on making America the best place on earth to do business. "

" 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

Him

Big

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

" 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. "

" If we don't set the rules for commerce in the Asia-Pacific region, China will. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life's a little different. "

" 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. "

" The chief of staff has to reflect and sometimes complement the strengths of the president he serves. "

" 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. "

" Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times. "

" The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact. "