27 Quotes by Stephen Pagliuca

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win.

Part of America is we've always had people that can get things done.

We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up.

We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.

To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.

Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.

The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.

I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.