Political Quotes

“greed is a bad word; but profit is a good word, and we have got to separate the two. I do not like all the class warfare that has been played on this issue. But while we are talking about it, let me say to my colleagues that if they want big corporations and multinational corporations to buy small businesses at a fire sale price from small business people who are the engine of the American economy, then vote to defend the President's veto here. My colleagues should want to side with small business people and not with large corporations and multinational corporations that are going to gobble up all these small business people. That is literally what happens when a fire sale is forced. That is not fair. That is not right. But let us not trash the free enterprise system. It is what people in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union really wanted of the American Dream, an opportunity to have things for their family that they never had or to have a business and to literally go to work and know that the sky is the limit on opportunity. So let us defend the free enterprise system, but let us most importantly defend the small guy, the small business people and the family farmer. That is what we are trying to do. It is the right thing. And I do think everybody should join in in a bipartisan way.”