William Daley
William Daley
William Michael "Bill" Daleyis an American lawyer and former banker. He served as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama from January 2011 to January 2012. He also served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1997 to 2000 under President Bill Clinton. His private-sector positions included membership on the Executive Committee of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Until dropping out of the race on September 16, 2013, he was a candidate for Illinois Governor...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 August 1948
CityChicago, IL
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The U.S. trade deficit will likely remain at high levels in coming months. The major reason is that the American economy should continue to grow at a solid pace, supporting continued growth in imports.
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No question it will come down to the wire. We don't have the 218 votes yet to win it, and the opposition doesn't have them to defeat it,
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I think it is important that China be in the WTO. But they must come in a commercially-meaningful way. And that means that their market has to be open for U.S. products to be sold into.? They should live by the rules the rest of the world lives by.
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I think that 'strong' and 'decisive' are never words that are used for any vice president. A vice president's role is to play the second position.
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Our trade laws, which are all WTO-consistent, are used very rarely,
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Our legal team has concluded the ballot was unlawful, ... I assume that this is an issue that will end up in dispute.
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He didn't want to be governor, senator, president, vice president, cabinet member, none of that. His focus is totally on one thing - it's always been the city.
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He knows that he can't solve a lot of the world's problems. He can't solve AIDS, he can't solve the global warming problem, but he can feel and make sure that people's quality of life is addressed by the city government,
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Someone said he should smile more in the practice session. On the walk on the beach with a number of (advisers) they had specific ideas on issues they thought their counterparts in communities would respond to.
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But I am optimistic we will pull it out. I am optimistic Congress will do the right thing,
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They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.
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not just a victory for Al Gore and his millions of supporters. It is a victory for fairness and accountability in our democracy itself.
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If the will of the people is to prevail, Al Gore should be awarded a victory in Florida and should be the next president of the United States,
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Governor Bush said that under our system of government the legislative branch passes the laws, the executive branch administers the law. Unfortunately, he left out one important branch of our government, the judicial branch, which has the responsibility of interpreting our laws and reconciling conflicts between statutes.