Political Quotes

“The American farmer and the owner of a small business will be, at the end of this day, applauding the action of the Congress of the United States. For too long they have suffered the indignity of the Federal regulator, the agency head, who burdens the farmer and burdens the small business man with countless items of regulation that stifle business, it stifles the ability of the farmer to expand his operation and, thus, have created a situation in our country where entrepreneurs are afraid to hire new people, are afraid to embark on new enterprises. What we do here today in reforming regulatory flexibility is for the first time give a disaffected regulatee, if there be such a word, the right to appeal a burdensome regulation that has been foisted upon them by administrative agencies. That is a tremendous advance. Instead of having to sit back and take whatever the agency says as a mandate, now for the first time we will have the farmer and the small business man say to himself and to the community, ``I'll be able to do something about this adverse regulation.''”