Elaine Chao

Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service. ”

We're a robust democracy here. That's the wonderful thing about this country. ”

Those memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound understanding of the challenges of economic development - an understanding which will make my tenure as Peace Corps director, I hope, a very special one. ”

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. ”

People can voice their different points of view. We are also a country where there will be criticism. ”

Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion. ”

Government at all levels has kicked the fiscal can down the road for far too long. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”