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The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

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

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.

Small businesses create half of the jobs in the private sector.

Let's start with a basic question: Do we, as a country, want our most highly qualified employees from the private sector to pursue public service? The answer, I would imagine, should be yes.

The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.