Warren Buffett, for one:
On Card Check: “I think the secret ballot's pretty important in the country. I'm against card check, to make a perfectly flat statement.”
On Cap and Trade: “Anything you put in that effectively taxes carbon emissions is... Somebody's going to bear the brunt of it. In the case of a regulated utility, the utility customers are gonna pay for it. I mean, it's going to become, in effect, a tax. I think we should get the economy straight. I think job one, job two, and job three is the economy.”
On Executive Jets: “I do have a -- a -- a dog in this fight. (snickering) So put me down as biased, but I -- I do think -- I use a jet both personally and with business. I mean, I have my own things I pay for, but I use it in business. Berkshire has been better off by me having a -- a plane available to go and do deals or whatever it may be. I think it's a big mistake to start demonizing anybody in this game. I -- I just think that it -- it causes the American people to look backwards, and we don't want villains.”
On economic Stimulus: “Job one is to win the war. Job -- the economic war. Job two is to win the economic war, and job three. And you can't expect people to unite behind you if you're trying to jam a whole bunch of things down their throats. I don't think anybody on December 7th would have said that a war is a terrible thing to waste and therefore we're going to try and ram through a whole bunch of things. It's just a mistake, I think, when you've got one overriding objective to try and muddle it up with a whole bunch of other things.”
Yet he loves Obama: “The minority has... They really do have an obligation to support things that, in general, are clearly designed to fight the war in a big way. Republicans have a -- an obligation to regard this as an economic war and to realize you need one leader and -- and in general support of that. But I think that the Democrats -- and I --
I voted for Obama, I strongly support him, and I think he's the right guy, but I think they should not use this... When they're calling for unity on a question this important they should not use it to roll the Republicans.”
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/buffett-cap-and-trade-is-a-regressive-tax/