Political Quotes

“I was asked to bat cleanup on National Small Business Week for our conference. I have been a Main Street entrepreneur my entire life. My wife and I moved back to our hometown in 1978. She will celebrate her 41st anniversary this September with her only job--a business in our downtown selling home accessories and gifts. I am very proud of you, Maureen. Three years later, I had my opportunity to stake out my attempt at being an entrepreneur. As Senator Scott mentioned, it is fraught with pitfalls. There is no guarantee, when you stick your neck out and want to do some enterprise--no guarantee it is going to turn out. What a thrill it is, though, when it does, and it is what drives our great country. Enterprise in this country, from its foundation, was built upon small businesses. We have over 500,000 of them in Indiana. Those businesses created over 38,000 new jobs in the last year, but things aren't as good as they could be because as much as the tax reform did for securing the future of small business, it is not permanent. We need to make sure that is done sometime before 2025. Manufacturing--the biggest business in Indiana since the Trump economy has created the hottest context for business, small, medium or large. Six times more jobs in President Trump's 2 years have been created in manufacturing than the last 2 years of the prior administration. Sometimes a little business can get lucky and become a medium-size business and a large business.…”