Bruce Josten Quotations

We need to have more access to more markets abroad, not less access.

If there's going to be retaliation, which frequently takes place in the trade world the kind of retaliation would be either tariff barriers, non-tariff barriers, or prohibitions similar to any that the Congress of the United States may choose to impose on the ports deal. How could that be good for the world's largest exporter, which is the United States, with 30 percent of our economy dependent on (international) trade?

If Oxley had more control over that process and the timing, I just don't think we would have the law that resulted.

I don't think this boils down to a 30-second spiel with anybody.

He believes in the need to get this economy back on a high growth track, to increase productivity so we can have higher wages and incomes.

While the security of the American people and our critical infrastructure must always be a top priority, implementing the laws that could harm the health of our economy in the name of national security would be a grave mistake. All parties involved must strive to find a balance that keeps us safe while at the same time allows our economy to continue to flourish.

Everybody in the business community started screaming simultaneously.

When this deal first surfaced late Thursday, the business community was just shocked. Instantly, if not rather simultaneously, people started making calls to the Senate leadership, to the staff of the Senate Finance Committee. It was the wholesalers, the manufacturers, the mass retailers.

The bill closes some glaring loopholes in current trademark law and provides much-needed tools to enhance criminal-enforcement efforts.

When you are talking about a budget for 2007 of $2,400bn, I don't want to sound crass, but $9bn is a rounding error.