The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
Kit Bond

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
Mac Thornberry

The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.
Toshihiko Fukui

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.
Ellen Tauscher

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.
Billy Tauzin

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Tom Peters

The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees.
Jim Ryun

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
J. D. Hayworth

The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.
Gary Miller

The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.
Jim Walsh

The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.
Dennis Hastert

The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.
Benjamin Cohen

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs.
Lawrence Summers

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.
Norman Ralph Augustine

There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.
William M. Daley

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
David Letterman

This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.
Jodi Rell

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.
Solomon Ortiz

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
Bob Ney

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.
Martin Feldstein