Rahm Emanuel

So my memory is slightly different than your memory.

But there was a consensus around – when we were first coming up with the Recovery Act, I mean Jamie Dimon says –

in the East Wing in a big meeting with financial and business leaders.

And this is when you're facing close to a small D depression.

Whatever it is, it's gotta be big, it's gotta be bold, and it's gotta be harsh.

And just get the thing moving and do it all across the whole waterfront.

That became pretty much what we did from the Recovery Act, etc.

So there was some consensus there.

I think corporate America here, just I'll say it here, is I think they've sold out America and America is loyal to them.

And what I mean by that is.

You benefit from a nation built on laws, and you're watching from the sideline a nation being destroyed and walking away from the rule of law.

Everything you have is built on the premise of the rule of law.

Number two, the president's declared war on the greatest research system in the world it's ever seen, and your company is a direct beneficiary of that.

And you're like the three monkeys, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

You are timid souls.

And if you don't want to speak of individually, what is these business groups for but collective voice with a singular message?

The core crux of the world economy and the U.S.

great economy is built on the rule of law, great education, great research at our great universities and the capacity to both find the talent,

the kind of level playing field that the rule law gives and the certainty it gives, and also the ideas that are coming out of the golden goose called our university system.

And every one of you, but one or two, to the person, have been incredibly timid souls, to quote Teddy Roosevelt.