Gary Locke Quotes

Prosperity comes from the private sector.

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.

The government does not and cannot create jobs. Only entrepreneurs do.

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.

People create jobs, not the government.

We want the private sector to be able to invest. The private sector works quite well.

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

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.

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

We need to get out of the way of the small business owner - and big business owners - and allow them to do what government can only dream of doing: creating jobs and thereby creating wealth.

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.

You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.

However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

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

If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery.

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

I'm one of those people who believes that part of the greatness of the United States is our private sector. It's what we do as private citizens for ourselves and our companies. And our economy is essentially the wonder of the world because, in fact, it's produced so much for us over the years. That's not government that does that.

Government cannot substitute for a healthy private sector, and both need a strong civil society.

Government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

I just believe that government borrowing and spending doesn't lead to economic prosperity, growth, or sustainable jobs. I know that it comes from the private sector: people who invest in their businesses and ideas.

The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.

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

Utah's economy stays strong by adhering to conservative fundamental principles: low and consistent tax rates, smaller and more efficient government, sensible regulation, and empowering the private sector to create jobs.