Quotes About Chao

#1. Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports,

Elaine Chao

#2. Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"Order is organic, it can't just be ordered up."
"The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. You cannot control what you cannot predict.

Lawrence Samuels

#3. We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.

Elaine Chao

#4. What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.

Jonathan Galassi

#5. Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

Blythe Danner

#6. I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Gilda Radner

#7. The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

Michael J. Sandel

#8. A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.

Buwei Yang Chao

#9. Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.

Elaine Chao

#10. Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?

Buwei Yang Chao

#11. I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.

Buwei Yang Chao

#12. This is the same Lizzie Chao who I went to high school with," Hart said. "I believe so," Isabel said. "She's married," Hart said. "She's separated," Isabel said. "Which means she's married with an option to trade up," Catherine said.

John Scalzi

#13. Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules,

Elaine Chao

#14. There may be a little bit of finger-pointing - there always is in a situation like this - but I think of Ebola as an act of nature. It's the biological equivalent of a tsunami, and yes, we are having trouble handling it.

Richard Preston

#15. Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion,

Elaine Chao

#16. We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship,

Elaine Chao

#17. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.

Stephen King

#18. There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#19. My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

Buwei Yang Chao

#20. Then, right in front of his boys, he kissed me, full-on, full tongue, full throttle. His arms wrapped around my back and mine went around his neck.

Kristen Ashley

#21. It will level the playing field, ... It will give American workers choice, confidence and also control.

Elaine Chao

#22. The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,

Elaine Chao

#23. Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

Ed Gillespie