“Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-gen...” — Elaine Chao Quote

Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses.

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

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.

Activist shareholder resolutions do not have to pass to succeed. The process itself can be so injurious to a company that management will cave to demands.

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

We, as a state, need to think big. What can we do to make a splash? What can we to do to say to the world, 'Not only do we want you to invest capital here, we want you to move here?'

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that.

When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.