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While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.

That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

Certainly it is much easier to think about negotiating and having deals when there is a singular represented point of view. That pretty much is a given.