Jim DeMint: “The biggest threat to our economy is not a particular phone company, but an army of government lawyers and bureaucrats…”

We cannot keep our country shut down. It's affecting people emotionally, as well as financially.

I would just hope the industry could have some kind of a good housekeeping seal that was on every contract, that if something goes wrong there was someone to call, and if that seal is not there you should not move with them.

To paraphrase Ambassador Ryan Crocker, we need to be in the business of risk management, not risk avoidance.

I've had a chance to work with a lot of retail businesses. I've been in the marketing business most of my life.