Mark McKinnon Quotes

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.

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.

Infrastructure investment can boost economic growth and employment, and, in fact, it is fiscally neutral.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

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

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

I want to use every tool in the toolbox that's at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work.

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.

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

We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

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

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.

In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.

Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing.

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.

George Bush created lots of jobs.

The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.

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

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.