Bill Richardson Quotes

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

I believe the private sector and small businesses drive our economy, and that means the federal government should work to ensure the private sector is as robust as possible.

My administration will continue to engage the private sector to increase economic opportunities and look for ways to improve our already top notch business environment.

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

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 would say as emphatically as I can that private enterprise—local and foreign—must respond if the Alliance [for Progress] is to succeed .... [it] must respond by building the factories, the marketing and the service companies which are the manifestations of mature, developed economies. If the private sector fails, then our own public aid programs will have little effect.

Growth means creating the right conditions for the private sector - farmers and firms - to invest and do business.

I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal's future.

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.

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.

We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

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 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 businesses create half of the jobs in the private sector.

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.

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

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

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

If we foster business growth and create opportunities, then our economy will again thrive.

A big part of our agenda is to position the United States for long-term sustainable growth and health, and those jobs come from the private sector.

Some people don't support economic development. There are people in the Assembly who say there is no economic development possible; leave it to the private sector.

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