Leadership Quote by Wayne Allard

The move here is a tidy rhetorical judo flip: rules and regulations, usually framed as the enemy of business, get recast as the very thing that lets business breathe. Allard’s phrasing borrows the language of post-crisis necessity, the kind of “we had to” that turns political choice into reluctant stewardship. It’s not an argument about ideology; it’s an argument about inevitability.

The key subtext is “security challenges” as a permission slip. In the shadow of terrorism-era anxiety, “security” became a solvent that could dissolve objections across party lines. Allard leverages that cultural memory to justify state intervention without saying “intervention.” The grammar does the work: “put in rules and regulations” sounds procedural, almost administrative, rather than coercive. It’s regulation with the rough edges sanded off.

Then comes the coalition-building. “Sustain their growth and create jobs” is the bipartisan hymnbook, a promise that whatever you think about government, the outcome will be pro-growth and pro-worker. Notice the pronoun drift: “we” (government, collective nation) acts so that “business” can “sustain” and “create.” It’s a subtle restatement of dependency: the market’s freedom is secured by public architecture.

Contextually, this fits a Republican politician navigating an era when deregulation remained a party brand, yet new federal controls (finance, aviation, surveillance, critical infrastructure) were expanding. The quote tries to domesticate that tension by painting regulation not as restraint, but as insurance: the cost of keeping the system profitable, stable, and politically saleable.