Gary Locke Quotes

• Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

  Gary Locke

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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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  Tags in People, Attention

• 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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• Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

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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.

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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.

  Gary Locke

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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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• 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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• 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.

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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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  Topics in History

  Tags in World

• 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.

  Gary Locke

  Topics in History

• 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

  Topics in Country

• 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.

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  Tags in Potential, Understand

• I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

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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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• 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

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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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• 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.

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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.

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  Tags in Place

• 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.

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Gary Locke (31)

Birth:	21st January, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Gary Faye Locke was born in Seattle, Washington, USA. He is an American politician. In 1982, he was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives. He was the 21st Governor of Washington from 1997 to 2005. He was the first, and remains the only, Chinese American to serve as governor of a state in United States history. He served in the Obama administration as United States Secretary of Commerce from 2009 to 2011. He was the United States ambassador to China from 2011 until 2014. He is also the first Chinese American to serve as the U.S. ambassador to China. He earned a B.A. degree in political science from Yale University in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975.

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