When the poor are converted into consumers, they get more…

It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent…

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

Consumers should have access to affordable banking services, which requires competition in the market.

— Jake Auchincloss

When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the…

— Sheldon Richman

The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive…

— Murray Rothbard

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars…

— John W. Gardner

Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making…

— Jesse Ventura

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector

— George Galloway

Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives…

— Allen Weinstein

“Private-sector preparedness is not a luxury; it is a cost of doing business in the post-9/11 world. It is ignored at a tremendous potential…

— The 9 11 Commission Report

The governments are seen to be less effective than they used to be. The private sector is perceived as being so much more efficient,…

— Mary Robinson

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than…

— James Cook

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

— Mike Pence

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a…

— Linda Chavez

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

— Alan Greenspan