Jim Talent Quotes

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

It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.

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.

President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.

The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.

I believe that business creates the jobs in this country and not government.

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.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work.

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 .

When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.

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

Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

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.

Higher taxes kill jobs. Regulations kill jobs.

America's private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way.

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government, creates jobs.

Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

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

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.