Young Guns, by Rep. Paul Ryan, Rep. Eric Cantor & Rep. Kevin McCarthy: on Corporations

Eric Cantor: I'm first and foremost a small businessperson

For anyone with a background in business, Washington DC can be a frustrating, even infuriating place. Talk about disconnected from the realities of creating and maintaining jobs (if you're not using the taxpayer money to do it, that is). In 2009, since 1900, the current administration has the least private sector experience of all the presidential administrations studied.

Eric Cantor: Threat of taxes & regulation deters business & jobs

For our economy to grow and create jobs, Washington needs to repeal any government regulation that will impose an economic cost, trigger job losses, or disproportionately impact small businesses. Our rule should be, first, do no harm!

Kevin McCarthy: Invested lottery winnings to start deli business at age 19

I invested my lottery winnings in the stock market and when I was nineteen, I opened my first real business, a deli in Bakersfield. Running my sandwich shop taught me what all small businesspeople learn: that the work is hard, the margins are thin, and the government is too often an obstacle, not an aid, to success. Still, I tried to be innovative and stay ahead of the competition.

Source: Young Guns, by Reps. Ryan, Cantor & McCarthy, p.143-144 Sep 14, 2010