"Government cannot get people out of poverty because it is on the backs of the burden of small business."
"Individual responsibility is the answer, small business is the answer, and we quit burdening everybody with government regulations."
"My experience has been that big government and regulations and processes choke the heck out of opportunities for the private sector to get engaged."
"I am from the private sector. I am from Texas. And I am all about jobs and business."
"We think that, unlike the Administrator, there needs to be some certainty; there needs to be an extension of the deadline by at least 3 years."
"I believe the federal government has no role in it."
"I fly into DFW every Sunday. I am rooting for you. OK? But I am a business guy."
"I have been in the automobile business for 42 years, my family 73 years, so I am very interested in making sure we move people and product around our country."
"I am a small business owner, and I can tell you, you are not helping small business, okay."
"The burden that this Administration is putting on small businesses is unbelievable."
"I think the president has laid down a very, very reasonable compromised marker, one that he and the speaker had nearly worked out to completion last summer."
"Tax increases, as a business owner, I can tell you, tax increases have put us further in debt."