To jump-start our economy, we must leave cash in your hands - because if you've got money in your pocket, you'll spend it at the hardware store or the corner market, and that will drive job growth in our private sector.

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

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

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

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]

We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.