Gary Locke
Gary Locke
Gary Faye Lockeis an American politician. Locke was the United States ambassador to China from 2011 until 2014. He was the 21st Governor of Washington from 1997 to 2005 and served in the Obama administration as United States Secretary of Commerce from 2009 to 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 January 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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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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We got in there and knocked it down in about five minutes. We were fortunate.
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We think it's upside-down economics: It does too little to stimulate the economy now and it does too much to weaken our economic future.
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We are in dire straits come this January, ... If they're (California) telling us now they will not be able to give us any bit of electricity, we have a major crisis coming up.
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We strongly disagree with the judge's findings. Microsoft products have greatly benefited consumers.
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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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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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Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.