Tim Scott Quotes

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

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

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

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.

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.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

Prosperity comes from the private sector.

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.

People create jobs, not the government.

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.

Government cannot substitute for a healthy private sector, and both need a strong civil society.

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

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.

Washington's parasitic approach to the private sector must change for there to be widespread, near-term and enduring prosperity and job creation.

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.

We want the private sector to be able to invest. The private sector works quite well.

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

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.

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.

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.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.