12/08/2014
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"I implore you, let's stop ruling these people to death, get off their backs and let them do their business."
"I want to be talking about 1,000 American-flagged ships."
"I truly believe that our regulatory morass is strangling commerce in this country, and it will strangle our entire economy if we don't get it under control."
"It appears to me that with our excess of rules that we have choked off a valuable American industry in shipping."