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I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.
When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.
Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.
Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses.
Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.
Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.
We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.
Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.
As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.
It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.
The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American's needs for a skilled work force.
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.
The Democratic Party's governing elite has long believed there is no problem that European-style policies cannot cure.
Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.
Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.
My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.
No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.
We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases.
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.
The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.
The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
America's competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force.
In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.
I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term.
In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.