Stephen Pagliuca

“My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I've made it clear that I'm not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists - ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.”

“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.”

“One place I haven't made it to - mainly because it's so far away - is Australia, so I'd love to go there. I've heard great things about Australia and New Zealand.”

“What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down and we try to solve the problems.”

“My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.”

“I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.”

“As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.”

“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.”

“Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know.”

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

“Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.”

“Boston and America is really resilient.”

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

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

“I'm not for a temporary war tax. We're putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we're gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.”

“I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.”