Political Quotes

“I appreciate the opportunity to rise and come before this body to talk about something that I think is a key question that the American people have. We are dealing with a lot of weighty issues these days--Afghanistan, Libya, the debt ceiling, the Tax Code and tax reform--but I believe the key question that we have before us is and the key question that the American people have for us is: When and how will America get back to work? Mr. Speaker, it's far more than just creating a bill and labeling it ``job creation bill'' or a whole package of those or a stimulus package of government spending that, frankly, hasn't worked and even admitted to and joked about by the President recently when he said those shovel- ready jobs and those shovel-ready projects maybe weren't so shovel- ready. No, they weren't. But it's far more than just creating a bill and labeling it ``job creation.'' It's about creating an atmosphere for private sector growth. You see, Mr. Speaker, the private sector creates prosperity, not the government sector. The government sector can give a job, but the private sector creates wealth and creates prosperity, and it's not just in our Tax Code and how that's being applied; it's also in the regulatory atmosphere that we present to those job creators. I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, that this House is trying to inject some reasonableness into a system that has gone awry.…”