Travis Kalanick Quotes
There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.
Kalanick, Travis. Interview with Kara Swisher. Code Conference, Re/code, 28 May 2014.
While New York City and a few other jurisdictions—states and local—have more stringent laws and ethical standards for politicians than does Congress and Federal Officials, but most have lower standards. In some of the jurisdictions judges can try cases and rule in favor of a company or wealthy individual who gave the judge the money to campaign with and get elected.
This seeming non-sequitur actually has a logic behind it. Flake argues that if the Federal government were much smaller, and spent much less money, rich individuals and companies could not be able to get as much out of government and therefore would not invest large sums of money in lobbyists who, in turn, would then not have the money with which to tempt and bribe congressmen and women.
Begala was commenting on a newspaper expose that President Bush had appointed over 100 lobbyists to administrative government posts in the area for which they had previously lobbied.
Travis Cordell Kalanick is an American billionaire entrepreneur and the CEO of City Storage Systems, a cloud kitchens startup. Best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Uber and the founder of Red Swoosh which was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2007.
