Political Quotes

“If corporate America does not step up and deal with these abuses, or if we do not stand up here on the floor of the House and highlight these abuses and push the business community to come up with solutions through the private sector, the end result will be massive new government regulations, which will not have much of an impact, except putting many more costs on our businesses, driving away jobs, driving away creativity and productivity. This is about honesty, decency, and it is about the survival of the free market system, the capitalistic system, based on trust and us standing up and acknowledging that this is based on trust, it is not based on government regulation, and we need to move forward and we need to put pressure on the business sector to step up and deal with this. I have been absolutely amazed. I came out of the business community. I worked for a Fortune 500 company. But I have been amazed by the deafening silence of the business community speaking out on these kinds of issues.”