Jon Huntsman Jr. 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.

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

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.

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.

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

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

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 .

Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.

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.

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

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.

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

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

The government’s role is to motivate the private sector, to assure that it performs in a way which serves the public interest.

The government playing entrepreneur is not a good role for the government.

… governments must serve capitalism by establishing and maintain a framework which enables capitalism to develop. It can induce it to grow, but cannot command it to do so.