Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.

The government undertook the quarantine policy as a symbolic gesture. They were under pressure from the business community to demonstrate to their trading partners and political partners that they could contain the disease.

The business community needs to continue to take the lead to move those still on welfare into jobs. Although the welfare rolls have fallen around the country, we know that they are falling slower in the cities than in the suburbs.

The business community around the state has always been supportive of Eliot, and they are excited about the prospect of him as the next governor.

I think some of that sense that there's a lot going wrong in the business community and Wall Street has subsided.

We've burdened the citizens so much, and I know we don't want to burden the business community more than we already have. The onus now has to fall on the city to either privatize services or look at other ways to generate money.