John Murphy

The U.S. has one of the strongest systems of enforcement led by the FTC, and it has powers and penalties that are significantly stronger than its counterparts in the European Union.

The idea of putting up protectionist walls that are going to somehow force the location of servers in the country or the use of domestic-created technologies is really the worst possible prescription.

you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Well, it is indispensable to U.S.-E.U. economic relationship. It is without peer in the world today.

the choice is not one between Eximbank on the one hand and the perfection of free markets on the other.

the failure to reauthorize the Eximbank on a long-term basis is going to put at risk tens of billions of dollars of exports.

Thank you, ma'am. I just want to thank the Congress actually for Sandy supplemental funds that really enabled us to accelerate a lot of development activity that answered the call for mitigation efforts.

No priority facing our Nation today is more important than putting Americans back to work.

if the United States does not make these investments, then we lose the ability to be influential

Historically, the only way the U.S. government has ever enticed a foreign government to open its market to American exports is by negotiating free trade agreements.

The opportunities are immense. Already, more than 50 million Americans are employed by firms that engage in international trade.

My bottom line is, we need to create more American jobs, and if we can bring funds from abroad that will create more American jobs, that is what I favor.

For the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, no priority facing our Nation is more important than putting Americans back to work.