Christine Quinn Quotes

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.

… immigrants in the United States are almost twice as likely to start a new business as native born Americans

No, Islam did not lift American blacks out of poverty; capitalism did that.

Immigrants have historically been an entrepreneurial bunch.

Small business is the backbone of America.

We need to open up private sector markets. We need to empower small business people, working Georgians, and entrepreneurs.

Republican Party is the party that stands for the people who are trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home, who are trying to give their kids a better life. And the only way that's possible is through the America free enterprise system.

I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.

Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?

If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.

My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.

I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.

This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.

I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.