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

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

Corporations are economic entities or structures, and yet they're allowed to fund political candidates, and when those candidates are elected, guess who gets in the door first? It's corporations.

Our federal resources, our U.S. marshals, and the federal court system are being used, I think, by the private sector.

It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.

We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork for private equity to productively invest in things like education. It's a partnership, not a battle.

We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.

I know how businesses work and what government can do to help lay a strong foundation for the private sector.

The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.