Zitat des Tages von William M. Daley:
Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times.
Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life's a little different.
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 is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports.
There are 14 Cabinet spots, and God only knows how many hundreds of people want them.
Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do.
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.
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.
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.
Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.
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.
Our focus must be on making America the best place on earth to do business.
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.
No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years.
There is no room for politics in the Commerce Department.
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.
As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders.
Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government.
There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.
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.
Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.
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.
It's logical and fair to allow only registered or self-identified Democrats to choose their party's nominee (although numerous states do have open primaries). Letting more non-Democrats choose the nominee doesn't guarantee success in a November general election. And it does nothing to encourage people to join and work for the party.
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.