Argued 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

Simply put, some of our small towns need to modernize their infrastructure so that we can support efforts to grow the economy but lack…

— Ned Lamont

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

Allowing the private sector rather than the government to allocate capital is crucial to growth.

— Scott Bessent

Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.

— Bethany McLean

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

— Manmohan Singh

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

— Noam Chomsky

When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners, the same…

— Louis O. Kelso

“In the late 1970s, growth in Western economies began to slow down and returns on capital began to decline. Governments came under pressure to…

— Jason Hickel

“The American Society of Civil Engineers said in 2007 that the U.S. had fallen so far behind in maintaining its public infrastructure -- roads,…

— Naomi Klein

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

The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts.…

— Harry Reid