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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.

~Gary Locke

Topics: Been Calm Earthquakes Fires Floods Forest Just Major Massive Possible Riots Seattle Through Try Wto

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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

Topics: Accurate Ask Books Campaigns Change Game Gives Good Him How John Last Lifetime Look Mark Mccain Obama Palin President Race Read Really

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On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.

~Gary Locke

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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.

~Gary Locke

Topics: Anything Confess Criminal Days Good John Loving Maybe Mystery Prosecutor Scott Seattle

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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.

~Gary Locke

Topics: Consider Down Everything Guy Home House Improvement Knocked Life Moved Myself Pipes Plumbing Prior Walls

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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.

~Gary Locke

Topics: Buy Chinese Countries Develop Economic European European Countries France Germany International Issues More Perhaps Products Side Stronger Them Then Those Ties Up

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

~Gary Locke

Topics: Always Assumed Because Came Just Liberal People Seattle Southeast Think I Think I Came

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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.

~Gary Locke

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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

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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.

~Gary Locke

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: January 21st, 1950

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