Dave Reichert Quotes

Mergers and acquisitions, we are always looking for that.

If I'm on the board of any company where there's an offer that comes in, I want to negotiate.

While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.

Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

China is littered with the wrecks of failed joint ventures. Investors are moving toward wholly-owned subsidiaries.

If we're going to acquire, what are we going to do differently? We came up with six rules of thumb. Whenever I've violated two of them, I usually get into trouble.

Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.

I have had no role whatsoever in relation to any investigation of Burisma, or any of its officers. I explicitly limited my role to focus on corporate governance best practices to facilitate Burisma's desire to expand globally.

Investment by any foreign company in any element of the U.K.'s Critical National Infrastructure should receive careful scrutiny.

M&A guidelines need to be liberal.

Can any nation claim, guarantee, that there will be no terror strike?

There are positives and negatives to publicly traded and private companies.

Franck Muller has been very supportive during our acquisition process.

We have been successful in buying and selling companies because we have a reputation of fulfilling deal terms in letter and spirit.

As Americans, we should all be concerned by the potential for any company beholden to a foreign government - especially one that doesn't share our values - to burrow into the American telecommunications market.

One of the biggest challenges for any Home Secretary - indeed, any government - is how we deal with emerging threats.

When Facebook went public, they didn't have a particularly strong model of governance.

Trudeau claims he's wary about Chinese espionage, but also says there's nothing wrong with Chinese state-owned enterprises buying up as much of Canada's resource sector as it likes.

Assessing any possible threat is one thing, but pressing into a full investigation without facts of a crime or national security threat violates standard procedure.

China has always been very hospitable, but we can choose who enters our house. We could not allow any companies to enter China and make money while hurting the country.

2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bunch of money, buying a bunch of Twitter. I saw my friend fired as CEO of Twitter. Uber was growing like a weed. As these companies get bigger and bigger, there's more and more friction. Being public was the last thing I wanted to do at the time.

Going public is one step in the life cycle of a company; it's not the last step.

Sashi will assume the general counsel responsibilities formerly held by Paul Vance, who is leaving the franchise after 18 years of service.

I buy companies I want to own. I buy companies that make a lot of money, that don't have a lot of debt, and that I can understand.