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Erskine Bowles [1945-0] American

Rank: 104
Businessman, Former White House Chief of Staff

Erskine Boyce Bowles is an American businessman and political figure from North Carolina. He served from 2005 to 2010 as the president of the University of North Carolina system.

Leadership, Positive, Trust

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It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.	Positive	101
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.	Leadership	102
I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.		103
I am not a politician.		104
You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.	Trust	105
And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.		106
I believe in cooperating for the common good.		107
We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.		108
I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.		109
I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.		110
The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.		111
Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.		112
I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.		113

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