Top 60 Elaine Chao Quotes

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It has long been said the only things in life that are

It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need.
Elaine Chao
I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country.
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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.
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Perhaps the original layaway angel knew from experience, or simply deduced, that people resorting to the old-fashioned installment method of layaway may be struggling financially.
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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.
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America’s private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way.
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People can voice their different points of view. We are also a country where there will be criticism.
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Every person – we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one.
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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.
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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.
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Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the world.
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The Obama administration likes to say that it is ‘pro-worker.’ But something is amiss when its labor priorities are forcing unionization and labor contracts on American workplaces, and denying union members information on how their dues money is spent.
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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.
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The Obama administration’s zeal to not ‘waste a good crisis,’ as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it, has been stunning even for Washington insiders to behold.
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My parents were very supportive.
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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.
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Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.
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We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers.
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I can tell you I love California – and no more.
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As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, ‘What a wonderful country.’
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Even a healthy economy and labor market would have struggled under the additional expenses enacted and proposed in 2009 and 2010 – from healthcare mandates and higher taxes, to carbon cap-and-trade and delay in extending the last decade’s tax reforms.
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The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education.
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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.
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Though the National Bureau of Economic Research deemed the recession to have ended in June 2009, to most Americans, that conclusion seems not to square with reality.
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Typically, after moving backwards, the economy takes even more steps forward.
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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.
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If we did not have Obamacare, we could’ve addressed the healthcare crisis in a comprehensive but segmented fashion – meaning that we could have promoted a health savings plan. We could’ve pushed for tort reform, which added so much more cost to healthcare.
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When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.
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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.
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There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.
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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.
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Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest

Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America’s poorest the hardest.
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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.
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Activists have every right to espouse their views of utopia.
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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.
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Capital available for individuals to start and expand businesses would increase with regulatory and strategic tax reforms, like reducing marginal rates, repealing the alternative minimum tax, and making the U.S. the most welcoming place for employers to relocate and create jobs.
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My first port of call was Los Angeles. That’s where I laid my first foot on America.
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Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.
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For significant job creation to occur, prospective entrepreneurs and current business owners must not fear the future or be under assault from their own government in the present.
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As we celebrate Women’s History Month this March, it’s important to remember the key role women have played in promoting a better understanding and relationships between our country and the rest of the world.
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For any trade deal to move forward, there has to be agreement.
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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.
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We need fair and free trade.
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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.
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401k savings accounts have become so important in the landscape of retirement planning that their security and expansion became a top priority in formulating and implementing the Pension Protection Act of 2006 that was enacted during my tenure as the U.S. Secretary of Labor.
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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.
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The work of these women doesn’t end when they return home from overseas, as one goal of the Peace Corps’ mission is to help promote a better understanding of other cultures here in the United States.
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Washington’s parasitic approach to the private sector must change for there to be widespread, near-term and enduring prosperity and job creation.
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I am not seeking any position in a Dole Administration.
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Even if it’s a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers.
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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.
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As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be worse: They could be trying to find a job without a college degree.
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I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.
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I know that some people, when they are growing up and they – as a person of color in a majority community – that they may feel as if they are left out, or they feel a bit strange.
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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.
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Smoot and Hawley ginned up The Tariff Act of 1930 to get America back to work after the Stock Market Crash of ’29. Instead, it destroyed trade so effectively that by 1932, American exports to Europe were just a third of what they had been in 1929. World trade fell two-thirds as other nations retaliated. Jobs evaporated.
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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.
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