“I think this group does not understand what it takes to create jobs. And I think they’re flummoxed by their experiment in Keynesian economics not working.”

“Every business in America has a list of more variables than I’ve ever seen in my career.”

(if politicians make decisions) “the wrong way, people will not invest in the United States. They’ll invest elsewhere.”

“I can tell you definitively that it costs $1 billion more per factory for me to build, equip, and operate a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the United States.”

(Not long ago,) “our research centers were without peer. No country was more attractive for start-up capital… We seemed a generation ahead of the rest of the world in information technology. That simply is no longer the case.”

(Unless government policies are altered,) “the next big thing will not be invented here. Jobs will not be created here.”

– Intel chief executive Paul Otellini, speaking at the Technology Policy Institute’s Aspen Forum Monday night.