Michele Bachmann Quotes

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

Prosperity comes from the private sector.

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

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

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.

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.

I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?

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

Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.

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

Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.

I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance.

Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it's smaller, less intrusive government that will lead to real economic prosperity. We know it's business-friendly policies, not more red tape, that will create real growth.

American business is not a monster, but an expression of God-given impulse to create, and the savior of our happiness.

You can invest as much as you want in infrastructure and education. But in the end people have to be allowed to make a profit from their work.

The private sector is recognized as the creator of social wealth.

Traditionally in capitalism, when you have more cash, you can fund more activity, which produces more jobs and creates more wealth. That's basic economic theory.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Mitt Romney knows America's prosperity didn't happen because our government simply spent more. It happened because our people used their own money to open a business.

The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.