Stephen Pagliuca

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.

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

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 and America is really resilient.

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

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.

A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.

I love Indian food. London also has great Indian food.

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.

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.

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.

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