Jacob K. Javits Quotes

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

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.

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

Through argument and example, we must show that Corbyn's hard left socialism will destroy business - the engine at the heart of our economy.

I believe that business creates the jobs in this country and not government.

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

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.

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.

The business of America is business.

Business is at the heart of America and always has been.

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

The chief business of the American people is business.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

American business is not a monster, but an expression of God-given impulse to create, and the savior of our happiness.