Elaine Chao

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. ”

My parents were very, very strict parents, and they were not used to this new, you know, American custom of letting your children sleep in someone else's house. ”

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. ”

Americans did not suffer alone. World trade overall fell two-thirds in the first few years of the Depression. ”

Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression. ”

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. ”

I love working in the garden. ”

I can tell you I love California - and no more. ”

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. ”

News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 media environment is wonderful in many ways, it can also be like drinking out of a fire hose and intensify a downward reinforcing cycle of despair. ”