William M. Daley Quotes

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William M. Daley

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 9, 1948

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.

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

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It's been proven in Washington: It's very hard to negotiate and try to get a deal done in public.

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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.

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Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do.

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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.

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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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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.

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There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

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There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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