Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes, Jr.is an American publishing executive, who was twice a candidate for the nomination of the Republican Party for President. Forbes is the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes, a business magazine. Forbes was a Republican candidate in the 1996 and 2000 Presidential primaries. Forbes is the son of longtime Forbes publisher Malcolm Forbes, and the grandson of that publication's founder, B.C. Forbes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth18 July 1947
CountryUnited States of America
You get huge changes in the last seven to 10 days as people really focus. I come from the business sector, where competition is a daily fact of life.
Especially after what we've had in Washington for seven years, I think people want to get to know their candidates, ... They don't want surprises after the election.
They never seem to be on the offense. Their spin machine is a little rusty.
At least you'd have something going in there instead of being one of 12 faces on a stage and trying to figure out how to make yourself stand out. Even if you don't make it, you will have a following and will be seen as someone with a serious issue who did something serious for his state.
As my father once said when he lost a governor's race in New Jersey: 'We were nosed out by a landslide,'
A company would have to be a fool to buy (Sanders) and then change it into something else,
It's as if you went to a doctor and the doctor said,
This is the real message to send to the Washington power brokers. Thanks to you they have finally met their match and they're going to get their ultimate comeuppance in the race in the weeks ahead as we the people take back the power.
It's one thing to waste our money, to raise our taxes, to burden us with regulations, because we can turn those things around. But it's quite another matter to take the sons and daughters of America and put them in harm's way without thinking the whole thing through.
It's THE question now for every President's legacy. Are Americans better off than they were four years ago? Well, new information about America's wealth under President Bush ... You won't hear it anywhere else but on right here on Forbes on FOX.
It is very telling in the case of George Bush that he uses a front organization financed illegally by soft money and corporate money to do attack ads on me. If he has criticisms, he ought to be forward about it and do it himself,
This is a free country, as is the United States, and certain people want to protest because they have a different view of how to alleviate poverty,
Is he afraid that the American people will find out what he really stands for, or that he has no vision at all?
So on the budget, we should get real. We should not act like cowardly lions. We should get our courage back again.