Bob Riley Quotes

Government does not create jobs, it only creates 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 .

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

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

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

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

If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's not crowding out.

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

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

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

In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.

I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

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

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.

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.

If there are not sufficient jobs to go around then government must create jobs to give everyone an opportunity

Donald Trump has shown an extraordinary ability to show an understanding how our economy works, to create jobs for the American people.

The fact is, I was elected governor of the state of Missouri to bring more jobs to the state of Missouri.

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.

See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.

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

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.

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