Private sector Quotes · Page 2

The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

— Robert Reich

The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

— P. J. O'Rourke

In the Senate, I will work to shrink the size of our federal government to its core Constitutional role so the private…

— Thom Tillis

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.

— Michele Bachmann

Overly restrictive regulations not only stifle the private sector; they also ultimately hurt consumers.

— Ajit Pai

Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

— Mitch Daniels

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

— Anonymous

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world…

— Ronald Reagan

GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

I have publicly talked about Mexico's need to open ourselves up to the participation of the private sector in the energy sector,…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had…

— Andrew Sullivan

Twenty million jobs is what we call for in the Green New Deal, which is essentially a New Deal focused on greening…

— Jill Stein

Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the…

— Harry Belafonte

I have argued that we need livelihood insurance, which would protect people against the risk of seeing their skills and expertise no…

— Robert J. Shiller

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're…

— Dick Cheney

I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few years with the…

— Ben Quayle

I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw…

— Warren Buffett

We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion.…

— Michael Crichton

“Before that, she was an elementary school teacher, until the state stripped the unions of collective bargaining rights in the Right to…

— Karl Taro Greenfeld

Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut…

— Kevin Rudd

In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and…

— Barney Frank

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation,…

— Stephen Harper

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.

— Noam Chomsky

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

I wouldn't trade the best days of my life in the private sector for the worst days of my life in the…

— Valerie Jarrett

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

— Jane Alexander

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how…

— Robert Wilson

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

— James Cook

You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Mike Pence

We cannot just rely on the public sector or the private sector. We all need to work together.

— Dan Schulman

Adani Enterprises is well on track to realize its aim of emerging as India's largest private sector energy and logistics conglomerate.

— Gautam Adani

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

— Paul Wolfowitz

Our message in NSW is government don't need to run businesses that are out of date when the private sector can do…

— Gladys Berejiklian

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

— Frederick W. Smith

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

— Tim Scott

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than…

— Evan Bayh

When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

— Walker Stapleton