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THEY SAID IT

“Dear Amazon, We need to talk. “It’s not

It’s not you, it’s us. …you’ve got something I

so much going for you, and am going to

you’ll find what you’re looking lose sleep

for. But it’s just not us.” over.”

—Little Rock’s full page ad in the Washington Post, a breakup letter in response to —Warren Buffett on his
Amazon’s nationwide request for proposals for the company’s second headquarters, for skepticism that driverless
which Little Rock declined to bid and instead launched a new city campaign to attract trucks will put truck drivers
other new businesses out of a job

“American trucks
will glide along our “So who are these

highways. So beautiful ‘elite truckers’ who

will those highways are so concerned about
be — smooth, beautiful, millionaires’ estates?”

no potholes.”

—“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert criticized the
—President Donald Trump praised truckers as the President’s tax pitch to truckers, which included
backbone of the economy and promised better highways eliminating the estate tax that applies only to individuals
in Harrisburg, Pa., where he proposed a tax plan to a worth more than $5 million. Colbert reported the plan
crowd of about 1,000, including hundreds of truckers would affect only 30 trucking companies nationwide

‘I say ‘hasta “In our business, we

compete for drivers in the
la vista’ to

gerrymandering.’ same way we do freight.”

—Arnold Schwarzenegger, on Supreme —Christopher Lofgren, chief executive of Schneider National Inc., on a recent pay
Court redistricting case increase for truck drivers.

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