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"I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest."
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"So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness."
"We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export."
"An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor."
"You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes."
"Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard."
"People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successfulconduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard ofliving and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenitieswhose enjoyment is called the "American way of life."
"Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity."
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"I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in."
"But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock."
"If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible."
"My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts."
"If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable."
"I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles."
"But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense."
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