We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

There was a real risk whether it would succeed as planned. I think it's a tribute to the goodwill he enjoys. He took a very high risk, and it ended up paying off. If Mario hadn't stepped up, I fully believe the franchise would have ceased and the creditors wouldn't have anything.

If China does not roll out its own trunk-liner by 2020, then the country will not succeed in 2030 or 2040 so it is really a rush.

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.