Stephen Pagliuca
Stephen Pagliuca
Stephen Pagliucais an American private equity investor, co-chairman of Bain Capital, and co-owner of the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth16 January 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know.
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Part of America is we've always had people that can get things done.
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We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up.
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I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.
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I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.
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I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win.
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We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.
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I'm not for a temporary war tax. We're putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we're gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.
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I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.
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I love Indian food. London also has great Indian food.
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Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.
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To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.
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A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.
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The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.