Sam Graves Quotes

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

I believe the private sector and small businesses drive our economy, and that means the federal government should work to ensure the private sector is as robust as possible.

As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.

We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.

I built a company; now, I would like to shrink a government and grow an economy.

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government, creates jobs.

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.

Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they tell me to just get government out of the way and they'll create the jobs and grow on their own.

I believe we're the party of small business.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.

The best industrial policy is competition.