Paul Tsongas Quotes

If anyone will study the causes of retarded recuperation in Europe, he will find much of it due to stifling of private initiative on one hand, and overloading of the government with business on the other.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.

Government cannot substitute for a healthy private sector, and both need a strong civil society.

If you really want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic because we give you a better economy.

The best deficit reduction program is a growing economy.

No President is going to be satisfied with 3% growth in the economy even when you explain to him that over the long term things will be fine for everyone at 3% growth. He says: 'I'll go for 5% growth and let the next guy settle for 3%.'

It’s the private sector that produces the jobs, but the private sector needs roads and an educated workforce.

The best way to revitalize the economy is war, and the U.S. has grown stronger [economically] with war.

The issue is not growth verses fiscal responsibility. We need both!

We think that this message - of someone that's from the private sector that built a company and now wants to shrink a government and grow an economy - is a winning message.

Utah's economy stays strong by adhering to conservative fundamental principles: low and consistent tax rates, smaller and more efficient government, sensible regulation, and empowering the private sector to create jobs.

GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery.

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.