Jo Ann Emerson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.
-- Jo Ann Emerson

#Ties #Dollars #Normal
America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
-- Jo Ann Emerson

#Attitude #War #America
With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.
-- Jo Ann Emerson

#Strong #Retail #Unemployment
A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.
-- Jo Ann Emerson

#War #Keys #World
The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life.
-- Jo Ann Emerson

#Compassion #Essence #Justice
All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.
-- Jo Ann Emerson

#America #Balance #Connections
China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.
-- Jo Ann Emerson

#Years #Europe #Population
As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.
-- Jo Ann Emerson

#Leader #Risk #World
Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.
-- Jo Ann Emerson

#Iran #Oil #Effort

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
If I had a dollar for every time I couldnâ€™t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.
If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.
I've never been more normal than I am now.
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.
It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

Jo Ann Emerson famous quotes

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