Evan Bayh Quotes

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.

I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

Every American business, from the biggest companies to small hardware companies, need money to flow through the system not only to create new jobs but to sustain existing jobs.

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

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

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.

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.

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.

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.

Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

I built private sector jobs all my life.

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.

We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.

I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.

While some people simply want to villainize the private sector, the fact is that the private sector drives jobs growth; we need to channel the energy and innovation of employers to generate opportunities for the entire labor market.

Washington's parasitic approach to the private sector must change for there to be widespread, near-term and enduring prosperity and job creation.

America's private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way.

We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans because we have been listening to what small business owners and employees have been telling us all along.