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" When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am not seeking any position in a Dole Administration. "

" 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. "

" 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 borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in America has been a gravy boat inside the Beltway. "

" Employers should overcome a myopic quarterly earnings posture and focus on long-term strategies for growth that include investing in their own skills-training efforts to enable a broader pool of applicants. "

" I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American work force and the modernization of decades-old regulations have been among our top priorities. "

" 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. "

" Because of these layaway angels, many children did not have to wonder why Santa skipped them in 2011. "

" Outside of Washington, D.C., most Americans aren't concerned with doing things 'big.' They're looking for less government spending, lower taxes, and good jobs. "

" We are a Republic with different branches of government, and so the Senate and the House are going to be full partners in working with the White House. "

" Typically, after moving backwards, the economy takes even more steps forward. "

" In campaigns, lots of things will be said, and what they have said about my husband is just simply not true. "

" 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. "

" Activists have every right to espouse their views of utopia. "

" 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. "

" Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began - in 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981 - employment was on average 4.7% higher than the pre-recession peak. "

" Government at all levels has kicked the fiscal can down the road for far too long. "

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

" 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. "

" We need fair and free trade. "

" What out country is facing right now is a skills gap. "

" 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. "

" Those memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound understanding of the challenges of economic development - an understanding which will make my tenure as Peace Corps director, I hope, a very special one. "

" The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth. "

" Taxpayers should demand that their states honestly assess public pension plans, accurately measure the assets and liabilities, and take steps to provide fair benefits to public employees that limit taxpayers' liability. "

" While there have been news reports of recent college graduates living with their parents because they have been unable to find a job paying a salary sufficient to move out, their near and long-term career prospects remain far brighter than for those without a college degree. "

" Americans did not suffer alone. World trade overall fell two-thirds in the first few years of the Depression. "

" Washington's parasitic approach to the private sector must change for there to be widespread, near-term and enduring prosperity and job creation. "