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Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.

If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.

Globalization has redefined the competition for employment and incomes in the United States. Tradeoffs will have to be made between the two.

The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.

As far as the international industry is concerned, I don't think people care at all where you are from - if the work interests them.