Words matter. These are the best William M. Daley Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Commerce was the best job I could ever have.
Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don’t help.
Our focus must be on making America the best place on earth to do business.
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.
Lots of people throw around phrases of ‘no-fly zone,’ and they talk about it as though it’s just a game – a video game or something. Some people who throw that line out have no idea what they’re talking about.
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.
There are 14 Cabinet spots, and God only knows how many hundreds of people want them.
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.
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.
What comes into the Oval Office are not the good or easy decisions. The easy decisions are made elsewhere. The things that make it to the Oval are always the hard ones.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years.
Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it’s emotional. It’s not rocket science.
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.’
The reason CAFTA should be enacted is not economic benefits: it is national security.
If we don’t set the rules for commerce in the Asia-Pacific region, China will.
A chief of staff has to reflect the president’s governing style.
Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack – that is, a common-sense view of the times.
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.
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.
While a truly national third party wouldn’t necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.
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.
There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.
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.
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.
