Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am pleased to join my two outstanding colleagues on the floor tonight to continue to talk about this extremely important bill. I follow up on what the Senator from Michigan said about the Senator from Washington State. There are only a handful of Senators in this Chamber who have actually built a business, a small business--it was when it started--and then of course it was an extremely successful larger business in the State of Washington State, and then it went national. So she knows about what she speaks, the details of how a business needs to be built. You cannot build it without access to affordable capital. Our businesses, some of them that are lucky enough to have something, are paying exorbitant interest rates on their credit cards. Some of them have watched their lines of credit evaporate, so they have to scramble to go get high-cost--it is hard to run a small business if you are paying 10 percent, 20 percent, 30 percent or 50 percent on the money you are borrowing to run your business. You know you have to get affordable capital. That is what small businesses need. That is what they do not have. Members on the other side of the aisle could not run fast enough to bail out big banks on Wall Street, but they are walking at a snail's pace to get small business help on Main Street, and it is a shame.…”