George W. Bush Quotes

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

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

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

Our government is focused on creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity and on creating the right conditions for Canadian businesses.

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

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

Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.

The appropriate role of government is to provide the framework that allows capital to flow freely, in accord with the law of supply and demand. That is how jobs, businesses and wealth are created. The government would have no money to distribute or spend without the tax revenue generated from the jobs and businesses that are the fruit of our capitalist system.

I have nothing against wealth; I believe that government has a role to play in creating it by supporting pro-growth policies. However, success comes with responsibility.

It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

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 .

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.

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.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.

People create jobs, not the government.

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.

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

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