Thom Tillis Quotes

We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.

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.

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

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.

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.

We need to move back toward a free market.

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.

We believe that - the President believes that the economy will continue to grow, that the economy will continue to create jobs, and that we need to do everything we can to enhance that growth and enhance that job creation.

I'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.

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

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

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

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.

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

You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.

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.

Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

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

We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.

In this day and age, a big economy – a modern economy – just cannot be managed from the top.

Trade will increase trade, and money will beget money, and the trading world will need no more to want work for their hands, but will rather want hands for their work.