Political Quotes

“I listened to my friends who are advancing this amendment, and there are a number of things that I agree with them on. I would be happy to have a debate on this floor about corporate inversion and about tax policy. I am troubled by some of the outsourcing of our activities in this country. I think that there are a number of valid points that have been raised. I am concerned, though, about how we are mixing them. First of all, this is not, as has been referenced, a Stanley Works; this is a spin-off. I have been following this for a number of years, because the gentleman that I started in the political process with some 30 years ago founded the Arthur Andersen office in Portland, Oregon. He has been a close friend. He has not been associated with Arthur Andersen for some 20 years, but we have had many discussions about the travail of that once great accounting firm. Accenture is a result of a spin-off that was brewing between the consulting wing and the accounting wing, and this finally was formalized in 1987. Accenture has never been a United States corporation, a United States partnership. Never, not once. I have had this conversation with my friend, I have exchanged documents, I have requested information from them, and I have yet to receive, and I will welcome clarification on my colleague's time, anything that suggests what we are saying is not true. Never a United States corporation, not a United States partnership, spun off 15 years ago.”