Meg Whitman Quotes

President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

Our best path to economic growth and global competitiveness is to invest in our people - not to provide huge new tax breaks to special interests.

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.

On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all Americans. We're beginning to see results. We reduced taxes for everyone.

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

The real question is “What can we do to improve the earnings of lower- and middle-income Americans?” That’s about increased education and skills training, and that may require higher government spending.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

I was involved in the 'reformicon' effort in 2013-2014, which was explicitly, 'We can't just Xerox Reagan.' In the spirit of Reagan, actually, we could rethink things - maybe we need to think more about job-training programs, earned income tax credit, adjust the tax code.

The more the American people see the sharp differences between Mr. Reagan and me and the visions we have of our future, the better off the American people will be.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

Our long-term economic plan is all about creating jobs and the economic security that comes with that.

As the American people have discovered, soaring rhetoric is no substitute for effective leadership on the key issues facing our nation: jobs, runaway spending, and an exploding government debt.

Pocketbook and economic issues is pretty much all I campaigned on.

People want the United States Congress focused on creating jobs in this country.

We made a commitment to the people of this state that we would focus on jobs, health and education. We made a commitment that we would work as hard as we possibly can to make sure that people across our state can get access to employment.

I believe we must stay focused on policies that will help put more Mississippians to work and make our economy stronger.

The Trump Administration is working from all angles to bring jobs back to our country by making it a better place to do business.