Mitch Daniels Quotes

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .

Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.

I will be the government of increasing economic growth and creating jobs. Take it from me that that's the main issue.

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

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

The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.

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

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created new jobs in the region and across the country.

Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.

I want to use every tool in the toolbox that's at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

People create jobs, not the government.

The problem with Mr. Obama is that you get more regulation and it's a disincentive for businessmen to hire people. You probably also get higher taxes, so in terms of the economy, he is very negative in my view.

As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

If you discourage saving and investment, that means you're walking in the opposite direction of job creation. You're discouraging good job creation and job growth.

We're really going to be focused on economic growth and creating jobs, and that's really going to be a priority.

No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.

I understand fully that jobs are created by the private sector, having been all my life in the private sector, but I don't buy the argument that the state has no role to play.

Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.