The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.

A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their supporters, it's corporate welfare, it's cronyism which is so destructive, particularly to the disadvantaged.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

Best part of my job is fulfillment. When I see that, that we're creating value, that we're helping improve people's lives, and we benefit from it, so it's a system of mutual benefit. Our philosophy's working. That's what turns me on. That's what keeps me going.

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

In America, I think we just keep adding, and that's our problem. We almost never subtract. We keep adding these boondoggles, and these violations of the basic principles of equal rights - certain people have more rights than others - it's like "Animal Farm." The pig says that we all have equal rights, but some have more rights than others.

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.