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

When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.

Faced with a deep recession, some say the answer is to expand the role of government.

Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.