People came up to me and said, 'We are afraid. Nothing is going to change for many, many years.'

We do not have elections. We have special operation, always.

So, they are certainly not fair elections, but, again, when he gets right down to balloting, if there was more free flow of information...

The more authoritarian and anti-United States Russia becomes, the more difficult it is to do business with the Kremlin.

I would tend more toward one in and about 10 out.

One of the valuable things that retrospective review could accomplish would be to identify rules that are having consequences other than those that were intended and might be having costs that are much higher than were anticipated.

It is extremely important, not only to businesses, but, again, any stakeholder, that they are listened to very carefully.

I certainly look at that $1.8 trillion regulatory burden--I come from a manufacturing background--to understand how harmful it can be.

I have proposed things like a Sunset Committee, whose only mandate would be to reduce--identify and actually eliminate laws that are harmful or no longer useful.

I have not found in my short time here that the Federal Government is particularly good at measuring the intended results of what they are trying to accomplish.

I guess there must be an Office of Ozone Regulation in EPA and they must be sitting around their office going, well, now what do we do?