John Connaughton Quotations

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

Over 60,000 finance sector jobs like banking have been added in the past three years. This is great.

Remember the recession in 2001? Now we're finally starting to pick up in the last few quarters.

There's so much in the way of new things that are going on that are basically going to generate that kind of growth. All these things are going to lead to bigger TV contracts and bigger advertising and sponsorship numbers.

The service sector accounts for 37% of the jobs in the economy. 2.4 percent is the normal job growth, which amounts to about 100,000 jobs.

It's our trading partners that pay for this. This has got to turn around. The question is, 'How much longer will foreigners finance this deficit?' This is the one big problem, really the only problem.