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“The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American's needs for a skilled work force.”
“Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there.”
“America's private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way.”
“Typically, after moving backwards, the economy takes even more steps forward.”
“Even a healthy economy and labor market would have struggled under the additional expenses enacted and proposed in 2009 and 2010 - from healthcare mandates and higher taxes, to carbon cap-and-trade and delay in extending the last decade's tax reforms.”
“The work of these women doesn't end when they return home from overseas, as one goal of the Peace Corps' mission is to help promote a better understanding of other cultures here in the United States.”
“For any trade deal to move forward, there has to be agreement.”
“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.”
“When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.”
“What out country is facing right now is a skills gap.”
“I love working in the garden.”
“To maintain their own competitiveness, workers need to attain and stay current on the qualifications needed to advance in a constantly evolving economy.”
“Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.”
“In campaigns, lots of things will be said, and what they have said about my husband is just simply not true.”
“The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in America has been a gravy boat inside the Beltway.”
“To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector.”