George W. Bush Quotes

I just believe that government borrowing and spending doesn't lead to economic prosperity, growth, or sustainable jobs. I know that it comes from the private sector: people who invest in their businesses and ideas.

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.

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.

To jump-start our economy, we must leave cash in your hands - because if you've got money in your pocket, you'll spend it at the hardware store or the corner market, and that will drive job growth in our private sector.

And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

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.

The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.

It is not the Federal government that makes prosperity in this country.

It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a president who worked hard to unshackle growth in the private sector.

People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

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

The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington.

Prosperity comes from the private sector.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

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

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

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.