There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs.

They talk about how they bring jobs to the area — they bring low-paying jobs to the area. I'm not going to be able to close my store and go work for them.

I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

We have been ambitious to acquire in Asia and also to try and win new businesses up here.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.