Jon Huntsman Jr. Quotes

My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

The tea party wants to empower people with opportunity and the freedom for the individual to pursue success and keep the fruits of their success.

Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

I am truly independently owned and operated.

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.

I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.