Huey Long
{mb_by_description}
{mb_by_casual_summary}
Table of Contents
Occupation
Family Info
Siblings
Spouses
Children
About the Erskine Bowles
Erskine Boyce Bowlesis an American businessman and political figure from North Carolina. He served as the 19th White House Chief of Staff from January 1997 to October 1998, under President Bill Clinton, and as the president of the University of North Carolina system from 2005 to 2010. He also ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 2002 and 2004 to represent North Carolina.
In 2010, Bowles served as the Democratic co-chair of President Barack Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Alan Simpson. Bowles and Simpson founded an advocacy group, The Campaign to Fix the Debt.
Frequently Asked Questions
{mb_by_number_of_quotes} Quotes by Erskine Bowles
- 1.
I believe in cooperating for the common good.
Erskine Bowles{mb_by_description:plain}
- 2.
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.
Erskine Bowles{mb_by_description:plain}
- 3.
I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.
Erskine Bowles{mb_by_description:plain}
- 4.
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.
Erskine Bowles{mb_by_description:plain}
- 5.
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.
Erskine Bowles{mb_by_description:plain}
- 6.
I am not a politician.
Erskine Bowles{mb_by_description:plain}
- 7.
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
Erskine Bowles{mb_by_description:plain}
- 8.
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.
Erskine Bowles{mb_by_description:plain}
- 9.
We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.
Erskine Bowles{mb_by_description:plain}