Erskine Bowles
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"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. In 1997–98 he served as White House Chief of Staff and he also ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate from North Carolina in 2002 and 2004.

In 2010 Bowles served as the Democratic co-chair of President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Alan K. Simpson. Bowles and Simpson co-lead a business group, The Campaign to Fix the Debt.

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The timing couldn't be better for me.

Will lay a strong foundation for further action.

Nobody thought we could balance the federal budget, ... I found that if I just listened hard enough, I could find some common ground.

I can't imagine having another opportunity to have such a positive impact on the lives and livelihood of the people of North Carolina, ... You will never see someone who is more excited to be here than I am.

Come January 1, I promise you I will be prepared to accept this public trust.

We're not moving anywhere right now.

I want to see if you have the same sense of joy that I do. Because you will never see someone who is more excited to be here than I am!

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.

The president is not exhausted, I am, ... We're just trying to keep up with him.