The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.
While it's a shame that more businessmen like Andy Puzder aren't helping to form America's economic policy, at least he's still on the field fighting the good fight.
So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.
The unions do a really good job in standing up for workers' rights and business does a very good job advocating for opportunities in this state. I don't believe the two have to operate independently.
Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
The sad fact is that today most of the heads of big businesses in America have become so confused or intimidated that, so far from carrying the free market to argument to the enemy, they fail to defend themselves adequately even when attacked.
I believe we're the party of small business.
And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop underhanded trading practices like currency manipulation and the theft of intellectual property.
The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
If a candidate puts together a small business platform, I'll go out on the road for him. You know, I'll support him.
It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.
We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.
