Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot of discussion going on this week about regulation. As we go home for this 3-day weekend, I encourage my colleagues, as they get around their district, whether they run into people who are in farming, in manufacturing, in banking-- particularly in the nursing home field--to ask those folks about the difference between regulatory rules that they live under today and 30 years ago. How many more man-hours are they spending every week filling out government forms that does nothing to make their bank or farm or manufacturing facility run better. I think you will find them saying that they never would have gone into business in the first place if they knew about this blizzard of regulation, that they could not have swallowed it all at once but had to take a drip, drip, drip over 20 years. In any event, I encourage my colleagues to get out to a different group that they normally don't deal with, the businessmen and -women-- the farmer, manufacturer, nursing home, banker--and they will find out that our country is unquestionably poor because of the sea of people we have filling out paperwork every week. ____________________”