I’ve tried poor and I tried rich and I like rich better. It doesn’t mean that I am a bad guy.  I didn’t go in to business to create a public policy success for either party, Republican or Democrat. I went in business to create jobs and opportunity, create opportunity, create value for myself and my investors. And that’s what the president should be praising, not demagoguing us simply because Warren Buffet says he pays more than his secretary. He should pay the secretary more and she will pay more.

Robert Johnson, BET Founder. October 2, 2011