Roger Williams

Congress can write all the laws and create all the programs they want, but as a former businessman myself, I know that jobs for veterans start and end with continued commitment from American enterprise.

business ownership is, again, what we talked about is so important.

We do really great in graduating lawyers and business people and so forth.

supporting our veterans is something we can all and will always agree on.

I can see the veterans beginning to help these 100,000 kids, help employ people.

you really have the future of our country in your hands, and we appreciate it.

Main Street America is not back. Some of our friends say the economy has come back, it is doing well. It is not doing well, as evidenced by the high unemployment rate that we still continue to have, underemployment, and so forth.

I believe tax cuts are revenue permanently.

I think, and I hope you would agree, that the answer is lower rates. You know, lower rates generate cash to grow and spend.

I just think that we need to remind people, in my belief, that tax cuts are real revenue, tax increases are temporary and put a burden on small business.

And they will give you 100 reasons why you can't do something instead of, OK, what can we do safely?

I think that is reality, unfortunately. So is there a way we can get a ship in your hands that is more reasonably cost?

Jobs are the answer.

The bottom line is we talk about roadblocks. Roadblocks to unemployment and hiring, frankly, is big government.

I have never heard anybody say that people in poverty are lazy.

Individual responsibility is the answer, small business is the answer, and we quit burdening everybody with government regulations.

Government cannot get people out of poverty because it is on the backs of the burden of small business.

My experience has been that big government and regulations and processes choke the heck out of opportunities for the private sector to get engaged.

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 am from the private sector. I am from Texas. And I am all about jobs and business.

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.