When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.

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.

Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

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.