Suzan DelBene Quotes

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.

Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

We have accepted there is a big role for government to create a framework where businesses can grow in all parts of the country.

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

I believe the private sector and small businesses drive our economy, and that means the federal government should work to ensure the private sector is as robust as possible.

My administration will continue to engage the private sector to increase economic opportunities and look for ways to improve our already top notch business environment.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.

Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.

I hear from the business community all the time that what they need is an educated work force. They need an infrastructure that can make people and products. You need to cultivate an environment that they can imagine living in and being in, having employees be in. And a fair tax structure. And a responsive government.

Government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Some people don't support economic development. There are people in the Assembly who say there is no economic development possible; leave it to the private sector.

A real economic development policy would address the root issues hampering business growth, like access to credit and marketplaces so dominated by giant companies that it is impossible to compete.

My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.

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

Growth means creating the right conditions for the private sector - farmers and firms - to invest and do business.

Eventually, we have to make a good business environment in this country.

Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure - not driving the vehicles or the industry - fits.

We want real job creation and a fertile business environment for small business owners.