Tony Evers Quotes

As senator, Mainers can count on me to always prioritize Maine's small businesses.

We want real job creation and a fertile business environment for small business owners.

I believe we're the party of small business.

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.

I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!

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.

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.

It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they tell me to just get government out of the way and they'll create the jobs and grow on their own.

The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.

We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead of harnessing it with onerous regulations and a repressive tax code.

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.