401k savings accounts have become so important in the landscape of retirement planning that their security and expansion became a top priority in formulating and implementing the Pension Protection Act of 2006 that was enacted during my tenure as the U.S. Secretary of Labor. – Elaine Chao
To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector. – Elaine Chao
The work of these women doesn’t end when they return home from overseas, as one goal of the Peace Corps’ mission is to help promote a better understanding of other cultures here in the United States. – Elaine Chao
The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American’s needs for a skilled work force. – Elaine Chao
People can voice their different points of view. We are also a country where there will be criticism. – Elaine Chao
For significant job creation to occur, prospective entrepreneurs and current business owners must not fear the future or be under assault from their own government in the present. – Elaine Chao
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. – Elaine Chao
America needs a new approach to boost the economy – one that does not doom future generations to being saddled with paying off today’s federal deficits. – Elaine Chao
Outside of Washington, D.C., most Americans aren’t concerned with doing things ‘big.’ They’re looking for less government spending, lower taxes, and good jobs. – Elaine Chao
It’s not coincidental that America’s vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a president who worked hard to unshackle growth in the private sector. – Elaine Chao
America’s private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way. – Elaine Chao
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. – Elaine Chao
The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in America has been a gravy boat inside the Beltway. – Elaine Chao
The expenses of complying with Washington’s torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth. – Elaine Chao
In campaigns, lots of things will be said, and what they have said about my husband is just simply not true. – Elaine Chao
My husband has an outstanding record in promoting opportunity for women and the women that he surrounds himself in his staff and the women that he has promoted throughout his career. He’s the father of three daughters. He’s obviously a husband who’s been very supportive of a very active wife with her own career. – Elaine Chao
Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service. – Elaine Chao
We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation’s or the world’s, which we see largely through the media prism. – Elaine Chao
To better deal with shortages of qualified applicants now and in the future, government policy makers need to acknowledge that government job training programs could stand improvement. – Elaine Chao
News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today’s 24/7 media environment is wonderful in many ways, it can also be like drinking out of a fire hose and intensify a downward reinforcing cycle of despair. – Elaine Chao
As we celebrate Women’s History Month this March, it’s important to remember the key role women have played in promoting a better understanding and relationships between our country and the rest of the world. – Elaine Chao
Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick’s Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there. – Elaine Chao
