ELAINE CHAO

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

We need to give workers more control over their training, health care, and their pensions.

90% of the fastest growing jobs require some form of post-secondary education.

The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.

Americans did not suffer alone. World trade overall fell two-thirds in the first few years of the Depression.

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.

When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty.

I love working in the garden.

We have many rules and regulations that can be sometimes confusing and complicated. By reaching out to the employer community and educating them on what their responsibilities and obligations are to their work force, that, along, with strong enforcement, is the best way to protect workers.

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.

My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.

As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, 'What a wonderful country.'

In the best of years, millions of jobs are lost.

We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers.

If we did not have Obamacare, we could've addressed the healthcare crisis in a comprehensive but segmented fashion - meaning that we could have promoted a health savings plan. We could've pushed for tort reform, which added so much more cost to healthcare.

Every person - we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one.

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

Though the National Bureau of Economic Research deemed the recession to have ended in June 2009, to most Americans, that conclusion seems not to square with reality.

I know that some people, when they are growing up and they - as a person of color in a majority community - that they may feel as if they are left out, or they feel a bit strange.

While there have been news reports of recent college graduates living with their parents because they have been unable to find a job paying a salary sufficient to move out, their near and long-term career prospects remain far brighter than for those without a college degree.

Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses.

I am not seeking any position in a Dole Administration.

Where public pensions are concerned, many jurisdictions are running out of road.

As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be worse: They could be trying to find a job without a college degree.

The Obama administration likes to say that it is 'pro-worker.' But something is amiss when its labor priorities are forcing unionization and labor contracts on American workplaces, and denying union members information on how their dues money is spent.