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" The small businesses that I've talked to have consistently said that the cost of health care is one of the things that they need the most help with. "
Linda McMahon
Need
Care
Health
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" I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy. "
Linda McMahon
Talk
Work
Back
" I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for. "
Linda McMahon
I Am
Know
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" I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget. "
Linda McMahon
Remember
Month
Early
" The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage. "
Linda McMahon
Think
Country
Minimum Wage
" As a CEO, I want to show women that there are no limits to what they can achieve, whether through entrepreneurship, government, science or any path they choose, and there is plenty of room for women at the top. "
Linda McMahon
Limits
Women
Science
" I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance. "
Linda McMahon
Business
Think
Strong
" I have kids in high school that don't know how to balance a checkbook. We need to have that fundamental understanding of economics as we move forward to develop the next generation of young people. "
Linda McMahon
High School
People
School
" I don't know Gov. Palin. I've certainly seen her, since she came on the scene, you know, running with John McCain. "
Linda McMahon
Seen
She
You
" It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense. "
Linda McMahon
Courage
Past
Time
" Without truth, trust is lost. The ACA could not have been passed were it not for the repeated assertions, which proved to be false, that Americans who liked their health plans and their doctors could keep them. "
Linda McMahon
Lost
Plans
Health
" When I was asked if I supported merging SBA into Commerce, I really wasn't focused on SBA or Commerce; I was focused on the concept of merging agencies, or reducing duplicative programs, so that we could reduce those costs. I am a firm believer that SBA needs to be a stand-alone agency. "
Linda McMahon
Costs
Agency
I Am
" While they're in WWE, we absolutely have a health and wellness policy. I'll probably always say 'we,' even though I've resigned as the CEO. It's kind of hard to break a 30-year habit. "
Linda McMahon
Hard
Health
Say
" Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. "
Linda McMahon
Me
Minimum Wage
Say
" I think it's high time that we had a woman president. But I don't want to elect someone just because she's a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women. "
Linda McMahon
Women
Woman
Time
" I've made a payroll. I know what it's like to execute a business plan. I know what it's like to expect the proper return on investment... and I know you can't spend your way out of debt. "
Linda McMahon
Know
Business
Investment
" Like all small-business owners, I know what it's like to take a risk on an idea, manage cash flow, navigate regulations and tax laws, and create jobs. "
Linda McMahon
Tax
Risk
Cash
" Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life. "
Linda McMahon
Leadership
Life
Community
" Even entrepreneurs with the best ideas sometimes need a little wind beneath their wings. "
Linda McMahon
Wings
Need
Wind
" You have to think about the WWE as soap operas. "
Linda McMahon
Soap
Operas
About
" It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits. "
Linda McMahon
Know
Change
People
" I wasn't looking for a hobby. If I were looking for a hobby, it wouldn't be the United States Senate. That's one of the toughest jobs I'd probably ever do. I just felt there wasn't enough compromise going on: People were too far to the left, too far to the right, with no one trying to build a compromise. "
Linda McMahon
Build
Looking
People
" I like to tell small business owners and entrepreneurs, 'I get it. I have your back on this. I understand about regulation. I understand how taxes are taxing. I understand what it is like not to be able to borrow money when you need it.' "
Linda McMahon
Back
You
Small
" We want to create more jobs. We want to qualify more lenders and expand lending markets. But also, I want a very different SBA - it's not your father's SBA. I want to modernize it and reposition it so when people think about jobs, they think about how the Small Business Administration would really be helpful. "
Linda McMahon
Think
People
Small
" I was my father's son and my mother's daughter. There was never any time when I felt I wasn't equally capable - whether it was being the only girl in the county who could hit a jump shot in basketball or playing first base in the baseball with the boys. I was always encouraged to do whatever I wanted to do. "
Linda McMahon
Daughter
Mother
Girl
" I found when talking with many other women that they sometimes are more reluctant to toot their own horn, to talk about their success. They have to be more confident in doing that. That is not always the case, but there is that element that women don't put forth who they are. "
Linda McMahon
Success
Talk
Women
" Someone asked me recently if marriage is 50-50 - it averages out to be 50-50, but sometimes it's 75-25, sometimes it's 90-10. In the end, it has to average out to be 50-50; that's how you support each other. "
Linda McMahon
Support
End
Someone
" Small business people are people with goals and values that can't be calculated on a profit and loss statement. "
Linda McMahon
Business
Goals
Small
" WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns. "
Linda McMahon
Company
Opera
Soap
" Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I'd experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren't allowed to get your full thought out. A lot of it is about having a 30-second sound bite. "
Linda McMahon
You
Political
Sometimes
" I have learned it's not how you fall but how you get up that truly matters. "
Linda McMahon
You
Up
I Have Learned