Jesse Helms Quotes

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

Indiana will always be open for business, and we look forward to welcoming more great new jobs into our state.

We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.

Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back.

I hear from the business community all the time that what they need is an educated work force. They need an infrastructure that can make people and products. You need to cultivate an environment that they can imagine living in and being in, having employees be in. And a fair tax structure. And a responsive government.

If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia?

In Maryland, we consider ourselves pro-growth Americans.

As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.

I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt.

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

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

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

To encourage commerce and manufactures by every possible means, should, therefore, be the great aim of the legislator; and every enactment and regulation of his conducing to this effect.

Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending.

We need to grow the private sector in every corner of New Mexico.

Illinois needs a real strategy for job creation that grows the economy over the long term with high-wage jobs that rebuild the middle class.

We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.

I fight for the things that I care about, which are jobs and the economy. I fight for the things I think are important, which are reducing the debt and getting more companies to come to South Carolina.

Indiana is a state that works because conservative principles work every time you put them into practice.

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