"But we will work hard on this because it is so important to our nation and I said this in our Full Committee, that we cannot have big businesses in the future if we do not have small businesses today."
"So really, we are left just with one option. That is just raise income taxes on everybody to the point where we run out of other people's money to pay for things that we can't afford any more."
"With 99.9 percent of all businesses in the United States being classified as small, the impact that small businesses have on our economy cannot be overstated."
"Rural businesses, however, while facing those challenges, also tend to face a different set of challenges, most notably, access to reliable and affordable broadband service."
"The lack of a solid business case for rural broadband deployment remains the central reason for what is often referred to as the 'digital divide'."
"I just want, because in business you are about getting results, and I know that you are probably going to leave here and feel like you testified and nothing really got done."
"Small Businesses owned by minority, women, and veterans face a unique set of challenges, ranging from raising adequate financing, to building social capital, to finding the effective mentors."
"I think I may be the oldest up here. I have been creating jobs for a long time."
"As a small businessperson for 34 years and a person who has lived the American dream, come from extraordinary poverty to being a very successful businessperson, there is nothing that has been a greate..."
"If I may, just to fast forward that, with the change in 2018 November election, there was a decline in small business enthusiasm, almost coinciding with an election, coincidentally or not."
"I will remind us all, the greatest social program in the world is a job."