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Tennessee needs to complement its cost appeal with new production efficiency, top-flight workforce training, and a flare for product and process innovation.

October 4, 2013, Mark Muro, The Examiner

I don't think [U.S. allies] question the sincerity of the [Obama administration's] policy of rebalancing towards Asia, but [there are] questions about the administration's capacity to 'execute' the pivot in its entirety.

October 3, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, AFP

There are some technologies that can actually capture emissions of, for example, CO2, and those technologies right now are relatively expensive per ton of CO2 that you can actually eliminate from being omitted. But, there are also, of course, other options, there’s energy efficiency, there are alternative sources of supply, such as solar and wind, and there are even switches to other sources of fuel, such as natural gas.

October 3, 2013, Nathan Hultman, BBC

The whole objective of the pivot was to try to say that the U.S. views Asia as a really important partner and will continue to devote high-level political attention, but what’s been happening is that there are other demands on [President Obama's] time. From the perception of Asia it raises the question, ‘Maybe they want to, but can they in practice?

October 2, 2013, Homi Kharas, McClatchy

[A presidential statement on humanitarian issues] is a step forward, but a resolution would be much stronger.

October 1, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris, Devex

The last presidential election put a lot of pressure on the Republican Party to get serious about changing the immigration policy of the country.

September 26, 2013, Audrey Singer, Christian Science Monitor

A country like Lebanon that only has four million people is looking at having one million registered (Syrian) refugees by the end of the year…How much more can a country like Lebanon be expected to do in terms of receiving refugees?

September 24, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris, CNBC

Kenyans do feel demoralized. They are paying a very high price for being good hosts. But, they have also recovered; they have dealt with a lot of these types of incidents, but this also brings them together.

September 24, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, The Takeaway

Exports have been a critical driver of the post-recession recovery in the U.S. and its metro areas.

September 17, 2013, Brad McDearman, Los Angeles Times

If we think about this as judo, which is of course Mr. Putin's favorite sport, this is just one set of moves. And right now, he's managed to get Obama off the mat, at least, and get the terms set down that play to his advantage.

September 12, 2013, Fiona Hill, CNN

I think suburban poverty is here to stay, it's not going to revert back to the cities.

September 11, 2013, Alan Berube, Christian Science Monitor

The bottom line is, the women's situation [in Japan] is not going to improve until you address more fundamental equity issues.

September 10, 2013, Mireya Solís, Los Angeles Times

[Putin]'s probably the most formidable adversary America has seen in quite a while. He's clever and duplicitous, very skilled at playing people's own weaknesses and blunders against them — skills he honed as a KGB case officer.

September 9, 2013, Clifford G. Gaddy, Business Insider

The Congress ought to get serious. They need to raise the debt ceiling so we don’t have this ridiculous counterproductive argument again.

September 5, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin, Bloomberg

The emerging markets [are] largely viewing monetary policy in advanced economies as causing problems for them and the advanced economies are basically taking the position that the emerging markets are chronic complainers.

September 3, 2013, Eswar Prasad, Los Angeles Times

Syria might still come up, but it won't dominate the G-20 agenda as it might have had there been a military strike.

September 2, 2013, Angela Stent, USA Today

Typically, we're a nation of mobility. We have one of the highest migration rates in the world, and it's been very important to keep our economy fueled.

August 29, 2013, William H. Frey, MSN Money

An accounting of the fate and whereabouts of all of North Korea’s political prisoners, including those missing and those who have died in detention should be of highest priority to the UN commission of inquiry and the entire international community.

August 27, 2013, Roberta Cohen, Democracy Digest

We’ve really seen considerable progress in getting more girls into school over the past two decades. In fact, the gap between girls and boys has been narrowing considerably. Today, of the 57 million children of primary school-age not in school, 53 percent are girls. It’s still more than 50 percent, but that number is closing.

August 26, 2013, Jenny Perlman Robinson , Camfed

Internationally it's highly embarrassing for a country like Australia to have the UN Human Rights Committee say something like this (on Australia's refugee detention policy).

August 23, 2013, Jane McAdam, ABC News Australia

Mostly we’re talking about regulation. For example, safety standards, emission testing: all these things the [U.S.] producers need to comply with in order to bring their products to the [Japanese] market.

August 19, 2013, Mireya Solís, Marketplace

If we think about what [immigrants have] done in their lives and how they’ve spent their time in this country, the fact is that they’ve been part of the American school system. This is one of the big things that makes them American.

August 14, 2013, Audrey Singer, New York Times

The question the White House has been asking is not about whether Russia is going to give us anything on Snowden…but what will come out of a summit in Moscow that will be useful to the president’s agenda on arms control, missile defense and our economic relationship.

August 7, 2013, Steven Pifer, Politico

Cities are starting to take control of their economic future. They aren't waiting for Washington.

August 5, 2013, Bruce Katz, TIME

South Africa has been good to [Zimbabwean President Robert] Mugabe because he was good to them in the darkest years of that country’s long freedom movement. I don’t think they would ever call for diaspora voting rights because they know it would work against Mugabe and he would see it as direct opposition.

July 31, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Christian Science Monitor