Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady from North Carolina for yielding, and I especially thank her for leading in this Special Order hour here tonight to discuss the burden of regulation on business in this country, primarily the burden on small businesses in America. From my standpoint and my background, I started a business in 1975. I remember the fears I had at the time. I knew I could do the work and I knew I could line up the customers. I believed I could turn a cash flow, but I didn't know that I could comply with all government regulations. And little did I know how much I was actually stepping into. When you begin to enter into a business, you are stepping into the unknown. That unknown turned out to be that I would find out about a government agent after a government agent, one after another. They would show up. They'd send me a little mailer. They would talk to someone else in my business. They would say: Did you meet this one? Did you meet that regulation? Do you have your MSD requirements there? What about the EPA side of this? Do you know you have to post a sign that says that you're an equal opportunity employer. And by the way, that has to be in multiple languages. And in case someone shows up that doesn't speak that language, you may have another regulation to provide that interpreter that's there. On and on and on it went.…”