Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I wish to thank the Senator from Louisiana, the chairman of the Small Business Committee, for her impassioned remarks. I have worked with Mary Landrieu on many issues. Sometimes we are on opposite sides. I don't like those times. I like these times. And I thank the Senator from Florida for his strong support. Here is where we are. We are coming out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, and I don't sugarcoat it when I go home because everybody knows where we are. And I remember back to those days at the end of the Bush administration when we were bleeding hundreds of thousands of jobs every single month, and at that time, as we all looked at the situation, we realized who the job creators had been for the past 15 years. They had really been the small businesses. They created 64 percent of the new jobs. So when we talk about jobs, when we talk about turning this recession around, we have to focus on small businesses because they are the job creators. We have seen big corporations' profits return to prerecession levels, and they are sitting on their cash and they are not hiring. We know small businesses are asking us to work with them so they can get credit. This is about healthy community banks being able to lend to healthy small businesses. This is not about toxic assets and toxic investments.…”