Ron Johnson Quotes

The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.

You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.

Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work.

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.

Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.

Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.

What I'd like to do is continue a private sector, free market Main Street types of policies. And those include less regulation. They include a fairer, flatter tax system.

I believe that business creates the jobs in this country and not government.

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.

It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.

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?

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.

That tax relief can spur the economy and thereby benefit all Americans is something that Washington Democrats used to understand. President Kennedy, for example, aggressively cut taxes after being elected to stimulate the economy as a means of helping all Americans.

Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

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

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

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

And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.

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.

I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.

We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.