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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. ↗

— Gary Locke

#changed #china #era #grandfather #great-grandfather

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 #could #course #dad #doctor

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. ↗

— Gary Locke

#exports #growth #heavy #intensive #investment

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. ↗

— Gary Locke

#because #government #jobs #need #private

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 #change #china #climate #climate change

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. ↗

— John Locke

#author #bestowed #bible #blessings #children

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. ↗

— John Locke

#fountain #parents #poisoned #streams #themselves

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. ↗

— John Locke

#beings #capable #created #end #enlarge

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. ↗

— John Locke

#darkness #eyes #into #looked #men

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. ↗

— John Locke

#experience #go #here #his #knowledge