Tom Rice

I think the United States could be the most competitive country in the world, but we have a noose of regulation around our own necks and we strangle our own selves and make ourselves not competitive.

Our regulatory expansion is completely out of control and we need to be reining it in rather than continuing to grow it.

I am worried that they are going to have less quality of life rather than better quality of life because of these rules.

All this expansion of authority absolutely affects commerce. The people making these decisions have no skin in this game.

The fishermen can't catch anything else, because every time they put their line down they catch a black sea bass because there are so many of them, it is obviously based on erroneous data.

What I would do is really provide funding to the veterans in the programs that actually benefit the veterans.

I would say change the conversation.

There needs to be a little more private sector involvement in that program.

I just think getting the name out and making veterans or military females aware this type of program exists.

I hear you, and I appreciate that, and I think you are doing a great job, I really do.

I want to know how much money we are spending doing these studies--for example, Port Everglades--versus what it actually costs to dredge.

I cannot imagine that scenario. And why it would take years to make that decision is just--it defies common sense, in my opinion.

There is going to have to be a dramatic change in our attitude if we are going to compete in the world.

We are in a economic war with the rest of the world.

I think 3x3x3 is too long, if we are going to compete.

We are strangling ourselves with all this regulation and delay.

We are fighting for American competitiveness, economic competitiveness.

I don't trust the Federal Government to fairly and efficiently administer these rules to farmers.

I believe the current administration thinks we need to be off fossil fuels altogether.

When the President took office, fuel at the pump was $1.80 a gallon. Now it is $3.50 a gallon.

The war on coal, I have seen projections cost the average consumer $40 a month on their utility bill.

But the longer we wait to enter the global competition for jobs, the more we damage the hardworking folks in the middle class. We will not grow our economy or put people back to work by expanding entitlements. We will never solve the…

I have truly enjoyed this. I really have. Thank you very, very much. I have learned a lot. And I appreciate it.

In my opinion, there is nothing more important than this. This is our way out of the malaise.

I had a very wealthy couple that I met with and had breakfast with this morning that employ 80,000 people worldwide...