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When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

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.

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 spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

Prosperity comes from the private sector.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.