Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Jon Meade Huntsman Jr.is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat who served as the 16th Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, and as United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1992 to 1993, and China from 2009 to 2011. He has served in the administrations of five U.S. Presidents and was a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. In January 2014, Huntsman was named chairman of the Washington-based foreign policy think-tank the Atlantic Council...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 March 1960
CountryUnited States of America
It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.
At the end of the day, capital is a coward. It's going to flee from wherever it perceives risk to be present in the marketplace...
I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.
I’m a very spiritual person and proud of my Mormon roots,
To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.
I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy.
A crisis allows us the opportunity to dig deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed. Through adversity, we come face to face with who we really are and what really counts.
In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively.
But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.