Van Jones Quotes

We think that this message - of someone that's from the private sector that built a company and now wants to shrink a government and grow an economy - is a winning message.

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.

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.

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.

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.

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

President Obama's assault on the free-enterprise market and venture capitalists is anti-American and shows his greatest insecurity: his lack of private sector experience and his inability to understand the economy and help businesses thrive in these uncertain economic times.

We need to open up private sector markets. We need to empower small business people, working Georgians, and entrepreneurs.

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

I dream of an India that is a hub of opportunities. We can't restrict ourselves to skills only, we need to encourage entrepreneurship.

I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.

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

What the Democrats have to understand is that while we do need to reform our regulation and we do need more restrictions, it is true that it is capitalism and free enterprise and companies that create jobs and wealth for every American.

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government, creates jobs.

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.

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

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.