Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from Tennessee. I really appreciate the opportunity to talk tonight. And I think what I've found unusual in my 18 months here is that when I look at a lot of the legislation that comes forward, a lot of it is proposed by people who've never actually done what they're mandating people to do. For most of my life, I was a small business person, still am. And when I get back home and I walk in the district and I talk to the people that are doing the same things that I've done all my life--I'm talking about small business people--they keep talking about the same thing. And the one thing that resonates with me all the time is the uncertainty of what this government does to them, the uncertainty of what this law, in particular, does to them. {time} 1940 When I talk about uncertainty in business, you cannot begin to project what your future costs are going to be on legislation for which the rules and regs still haven't been put in place. So we ask people to take this blind-faith leap--to go ahead, to go along with it. The truth of the matter is you can't. You can't when it's your own skin in the game. You can't when it's your business that's at risk. You can't hire people when you don't know ultimately what the cost of those people is going to be. Now, people say, Why is that a big problem? It's because it drives the cost of whatever it is that you do. Your personnel costs have an effect on whether it's the service you provide or the goods that you provide.…”