Our society does not give nearly enough credit to business leaders who create jobs, behave ethically and provide products and services that enhance our lives.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

German political leaders and business leaders should encourage more German private equity firms to get started -- don't wait for the Americans to show up but support and encourage Germans to start their own funds and to do the same kind of things that the Americans are doing.

What I want to do is, I want business leaders, small business, employers, to come together, ... A moderate (increase). A reasonable one that everybody can handle.

I think it's terribly important that a moderate group of business leaders has come out in favor of fixing what clearly is broken, namely our system of financing congressional campaigns.