“Smoot and Hawley ginned up The Tariff Act of 1930 to get America back ...” — Elaine Chao Quote

Smoot and Hawley ginned up The Tariff Act of 1930 to get America back to work after the Stock Market Crash of '29. Instead, it destroyed trade so effectively that by 1932, American exports to Europe were just a third of what they had been in 1929. World trade fell two-thirds as other nations retaliated. Jobs evaporated.

Every person - we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one.

We have many rules and regulations that can be sometimes confusing and complicated. By reaching out to the employer community and educating them on what their responsibilities and obligations are to their work force, that, along, with strong enforcement, is the best way to protect workers.

America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to being saddled with paying off today's federal deficits.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013.