Hillary Clinton Quotes

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.

And that's why the president has asked the entire government to step up, on his part. I mean, there's - there are things that the private sector needs to do; there are things that the government needs to do.

Presidents don't have a whole lot to say about prosperity or the economy. Government cannot create prosperity. There are a lot of other factors that determine whether there are good times or bad times.

The country wants the president and the Congress focused on jobs and the economy. Any regulation that the president promulgates that isn't focused on, I think, is a risk for him, and the same is true for Congress.

Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Investing capital in the government creates more bureaucracy, more paperwork and inefficiency.

I'm one of those people who believes that part of the greatness of the United States is our private sector. It's what we do as private citizens for ourselves and our companies. And our economy is essentially the wonder of the world because, in fact, it's produced so much for us over the years. That's not government that does that.

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork for private equity to productively invest in things like education. It's a partnership, not a battle.

Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.

Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

Government cannot substitute for a healthy private sector, and both need a strong civil society.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government shall do everything and the idea that government shall do nothing.

The government’s role is to motivate the private sector, to assure that it performs in a way which serves the public interest.

I don’t know if President (George W.) Bush understood how extreme some of the arguments were about executive power that some people in his administration were making.

It’s the private sector that produces the jobs, but the private sector needs roads and an educated workforce.

I have never been governed by polls … people misunderstand economic development.