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The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American's needs for a skilled work force.

As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce.

Prosperity comes from the private sector.

The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

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.

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.