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The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy - the American middle class and those struggling to enter it.

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.

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

We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.

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

My administration will continue to engage the private sector to increase economic opportunities and look for ways to improve our already top notch business environment.

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.

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.