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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. ”
I'm putting jobs over ideology. ”
It's our government; just leave us alone and... let the free market create the jobs. ”
Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging. ”
The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations. ”
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports. ”
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature. ”
Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it's just you, the ball, and the target. ”
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. ”
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions. ”