Big Quote by Kenneth Baker

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

— Bethany McLean

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

“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

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 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 analysis in the era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher was that government was interfering with the efficiency of the economy through protectionism,…

— Joseph Stiglitz

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the…

— Rebecca Solnit

Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

— Valerie Plame