James Jay Carafano Quotes

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.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

If we can get this economy moving and quit doing the things that prohibit growth, Alabama... can sustain that growth.

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

I'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

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

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

I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.

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

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

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

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.

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

I will be the government of increasing economic growth and creating jobs. Take it from me that that's the main issue.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

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.

The great effort of my administration was to mature into a permanent and regular system the application of all the superfluous revenue of the Union into internal improvement which at this day would have afforded high wages and constant employment to hundreds of thousands of laborers, and in which every dollar of the public lands would have repaid itself fourfold in the enhanced value of the public lands.

There's a can't-do attitude in this town [Washington DC] that I haven't seen anywhere else ... It's like running through a field of marshmallows in terms of getting anything done.

Make taxes as low as possible so entrepreneurs have incentive to work hard and be creative. The human mind is the secret to economic growth.

Secretary Clinton, right from day one, wants to do real investment in public works and infrastructure, building highways and bridges, building airports, to doing what we need to do that way which lifts the economy up, undoubtedly.

I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.