GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

Leadership at the civic level is designed to be inclusive, but has difficulty being effective. In the private sector, leadership is based on meritocracy. Digital economy should be led by the private sector and the role of government should be to facilitate and support it. [On Strategies for Global Digital Economy]