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" We need long-term tax reform that promotes private sector job creation. And legislated mandates that kill jobs by raising the cost of payrolls need to be eliminated. "

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" Never far from my thoughts are memories of being a little girl in Queens, N.Y., our family of five crowded in a small one-bedroom apartment, struggling to learn English and survive a new life in a new country, America. We humbly and gratefully still recall the kindnesses shown by strangers and neighbors who became new friends. "

Elaine Chao

Memories

Girl

Life

" We're a robust democracy here. That's the wonderful thing about this country. "

" We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers. "

" Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest. "

" Activist shareholder resolutions do not have to pass to succeed. The process itself can be so injurious to a company that management will cave to demands. "

" The Democratic Party's governing elite has long believed there is no problem that European-style policies cannot cure. "

" When there's change, people are always anxious. "

" Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression. "

" Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors such as pension funds, whose managers are supposed to focus strictly on their fiduciary responsibilities to retirees. "

" While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs. "

" News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 media environment is wonderful in many ways, it can also be like drinking out of a fire hose and intensify a downward reinforcing cycle of despair. "

" My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America. "

" We have many rules and regulations that can be sometimes confusing and complicated. By reaching out to the employer community and educating them on what their responsibilities and obligations are to their work force, that, along, with strong enforcement, is the best way to protect workers. "

" Deep in the heart of Kentucky's rugged Eastern Mountain region, there lives a woman who has fascinated and inspired me for two decades. She is known locally these days as 'Mayor Nan' - the octogenarian chief executive of Hazard and advocate for its 5,467 residents. "

" People can voice their different points of view. We are also a country where there will be criticism. "

" Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector. "

" Every person - we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one. "

" As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, 'What a wonderful country.' "

Elaine Chao

Liberty

Time

" We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism. "

" America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to being saddled with paying off today's federal deficits. "

" In the best of years, millions of jobs are lost. "

" To better deal with shortages of qualified applicants now and in the future, government policy makers need to acknowledge that government job training programs could stand improvement. "

" Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there. "

" America's competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force. "

" It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a president who worked hard to unshackle growth in the private sector. "

" My husband has an outstanding record in promoting opportunity for women and the women that he surrounds himself in his staff and the women that he has promoted throughout his career. He's the father of three daughters. He's obviously a husband who's been very supportive of a very active wife with her own career. "

" Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year. "

" The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American's needs for a skilled work force. "

" There are many reasons to worry; the evening news is full of them. "

" The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education. "