95 Quotes by Sam Graves

Many small businesses rely on small financial institutions, like credit unions and community banks, to meet their capital requirements. Without them, these small businesses would have to close their doors.

The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.

Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.

Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.

I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.

To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.