Political Quotes

“Seventy thousand pages. It's my understanding it's 3\1/2\ times the size of the Bible perhaps, longer than all of Shakespeare's works, and it's all about to be centralizing power in Washington. We have a grand opportunity, I agree. With challenges come opportunities. We have a tremendous opportunity, and it will have to be a bipartisan opportunity. I agree with you. We have to have the President propose a solution and his only solution right now is let's just raise taxes. {time} 1810 If he does nothing, if he refuses to help us make America more competitive, if he refuses to help us, we'll have, as you mentioned, the single largest tax increase in American history. We can't stop it if he's not willing to help out, but I think the American people are demanding comprehensive tax reform. They're demanding us to get this right because we cannot afford the massive tax increases in the current law. I am very fearful about that, but I am optimistic that we can and will do the right thing. I've got a friend of mine in Junction City, Kansas. I met him at a town hall. His name is Tom, and he's a small business owner. He said, You know, I'm going to start a small business--or I would--but because of those tax increases at the end of the year, I'm not going to do that. He said, I would have hired seven people.…”