Airport Quote by Bethany McLean

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes.…

— Kenneth Baker

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

— Manmohan Singh

Whether you agree or disagree with privatization, two things are obvious. First, taxpayers need to be asking more and better questions before handing over…

— Dick Durbin

Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

— Anonymous

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of…

— Thomas Frank

Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.

— Bethany McLean

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But…

— Vaclav Klaus

There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is…

— Bernie Sanders

“I assured them that our government was not going to be ideological about this: if I was asked whether I was in favour of…

— Yanis Varoufakis

Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is…

— Arundhati Roy

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest…

— Herbert Schiller

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized ...

— Noam Chomsky