Quotes by Gary Locke - Page 1

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
Gary Locke /
Society
Diversity
Richness
Adds
Ethnic
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We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
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Arms
Chinese
Investment
Open Arms
Welcome
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Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
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Religion
America
Diversity
Ideas
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I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.
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Seattle
Always People Because
Assumed
Liberal
Southeast
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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Carter
China
Diplomatic Relations
Long Way
Long Way Long Way
Nixon
Relations
Visit
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If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
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China
Hunger
Expose
Liberties
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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China
Grandfather
Great Grandfather
Rural
Stepping
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I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.
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Calm
Earthquakes
Massive
Seattle
Possible
Fires
Forest
Major
Riots
Wto
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I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.
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China
Concern
Question Mark
Governments
World People China
Intentions
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I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
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Prosecutor
Seattle
Confess
Criminal
John
John Grisham
Scott
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I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.
Gary Locke /
China
Overwhelmed
Somewhat
Pictures
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I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
Gary Locke /
American Values
Ancestry
Chinese
Raised
Liberties
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The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
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Attitude
Can Do
Defined
Immigrants
Innovation
World Class
Grow Up
Provide
Tries
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
Gary Locke /
China
International
President Obama
Trading
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We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
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Private Sector
Succeed
Produces
Sector
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I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.
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Improvement
Moved
Plumbing
Sewage
Wiring
Life Home Myself
Consider
Pipes
Prior
Walls
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All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.
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Balanced
Budgets
Print
Establishing
Print Money
Required
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Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
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Legal
College
Good Job
High School
High School Students
Good School High School
Star
Communities
Status
Unable
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The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.
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Constant
New Ideas
New Ways
Big Part
Cultures
Dynamic
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On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
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Access
Beijing
China
Leader
Mao
Preparing
Valuable
Firsthand
Henry
Insights
List
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
Gary Locke /
American Values
Chinese
Doors
Visibility
Life Great People
Added
Easygoing
Expose
Generate
Open Doors
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If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
Gary Locke /
Chinese
European Countries
Flare
France
Germany
International
Products
Stronger
Ties
Develop
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China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
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History
Acupuncture
China
Compass
Economic
Gunpowder
Printing Press
Superpower
Innovations
Marked
Press
Surprised
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.
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China
Heavy
Investment
Manufacturing
Unlikely
Exports
Intensive
Low-Cost
Resource
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My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
Gary Locke /
Asian
Insane
Doctor
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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Accomplish
China
Prosperous
Stable
States
History Good World
Entire
Entire World
Indeed
Opens
Proves
Recent
Recent History
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I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.
Gary Locke /
Additional
American Businesses
Businesses
Cut
Economic Times
Expand
Health Insurance
Insurance
Long Run
Promises
Welcomed
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We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.
Gary Locke /
Big Problems
China
Climate
Climate Change
Famine
States
Terrorism
Change Together World
Entire
Entire World
Exchanges
Facing
Join
Promote
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
Gary Locke /
Eight
Generations
Grandfather
Just One
Privileged
Seattle
Washington
Governor
Inhabit
Seek
Mansion
Mile
Shores
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The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.
Gary Locke /
China
Citizens
Middle Class
Millions
Poverty
Shanghai
Transformation
Explosive
Helped
Growth Country People
Hundreds
Lift
Millions Of People
Thriving
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
Gary Locke /
Beijing
China
Dissent
Human Rights
Intolerance
Olympics
Wrong Direction
Rise
Direction
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
Gary Locke /
Accurate
Campaigns
Lifetime
Mark
Mccain
Palin
Change Good Look
Change Good Game
John
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
Gary Locke /
Brands
China
Contrast
Middle Class
Millions
Music Great Movies
Dollar
Equivalent
Hundreds
Millions Of People
Throughout
Yearn
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