“Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began - in 1953...” — Elaine Chao Quote

Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began - in 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981 - employment was on average 4.7% higher than the pre-recession peak.

The Democratic Party's governing elite has long believed there is no problem that European-style policies cannot cure.

We have a lot of employers who are looking for skilled workers and not being able to find them. And we have workers who lack the requisite skills to access these good-paying jobs in high growth industries.

When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.

We are a Republic with different branches of government, and so the Senate and the House are going to be full partners in working with the White House.

If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.

My deepest desire is to do the thing that is first and foremost just.

There is a lot of learned material written about nationalism - scholarly books and papers, histories of it, theories of it - but most of us understand that nationalism, at its heart, at its very deepest roots, is about a feeling of superiority: We are better than you. Our country is better than your country.

In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while.