William M. Daley Quotes

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As president, you can't just say, 'I want this,' or, 'D

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.
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If we don’t set the rules for commerce in the AsiaPacific region, China will.
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I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors.
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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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Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it’s emotional. It’s not rocket science.
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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.
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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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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.
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The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA‘s positive impact.
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Party leaders aren’t responsible for every candidate’s gaffe.
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Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.
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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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Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life‘s a little different.
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In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.
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Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.
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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.
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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.
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No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years.
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If anything, the Democratssalvation 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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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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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.
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Sanders insists the party adopt ‘the most progressive platform ever passed‘ at its Philadelphia convention. Since when does the runner-up get to dictate the platform?
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There are 14 Cabinet spots, and God only knows how many hundreds of people want them.
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The reason CAFTA should be enacted is not economic benefits: it is national security.
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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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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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Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue – when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult.
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There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports.
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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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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.
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Young people – motivating them in any election is hard to do.
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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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Bernie Sanders is making a big and potentially dangerous mistake with his continuing insistence on changes to the Democratic Party‘s rules and platform. I should know. As chairman of Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, I understand too well where such ideological stubbornness can lead.
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