Private Sector Quotes - Page 3

• In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological.

  Stephen Holmes

  Government, Vibrancy, Libertarian

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• While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

  Herman E. Daly

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Feet

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• I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

  Steve Daines

  Country, Saws, Financial

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• 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 union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

  Linda Chavez

  Heyday, Cards, Literature

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• Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.

  Rob McKenna

  Strong, Way, Washington State

  "GOP candidate: 'I'm not Scott Walker'" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Thanks to the ongoing support of the Government of Ontario, RHF, in partnership with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, has galvanized Ontario’s best researchers, clinicians and scientists to accelerate the translation of the most promising research into practical solutions. This commitment enables the ongoing leveraging of federal, provincial and private sector funds to allow Canadian SCI researchers to embark on a national and global collective journey towards making a difference in the lives of people with spinal cord injury and other disabilities.

  Rick Hansen

  Commitment, Journey, Differences

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• When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Intellectual, Resources

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

  George Galloway

  Important, Left

  "Interview with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.thomhartmann.com. May 27, 2005.

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• I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek economy.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, Order, Support

  "Greek PM: Two Deals But No Drachma Ahead Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

  Martin O'Malley

  Jobs, Moving, Long

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 27, 2012.

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• The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

  Roger Wicker

  Money, Cells, Blood

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• The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

  Roy Blunt

  Jobs, Way, Creator

  "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

  Bill Huizenga

  Jobs, Creating, Order

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• We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

  Evan Davis

  Heart, Museums, Government

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• History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Government, Enemy, Shrinking

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• We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Government, Views

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

  Steven Rattner

  Government, Should

  "Timothy Geithner’s Legacy". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2013.

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

  Frederick W. Smith

  Government, Involvement, Government Involvement

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• As much as the Democrats try to change the subject, this election will be about Barack Obama, period. Mitt's speech last night hit all the right notes, but this fight is not about him. He's just the vessel. Now the question is, does this guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who thinks the private sector is doing fine get another four years?

  Howie Carr

  Fighting, Night, Thinking

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• Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Faith, Government, Two

  "Losing Faith In The Zombie-Run Government". www.businessinsider.com. September 13, 2010.

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• Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

  George R. Roberts

  Country, Second Chance, Partnership

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• I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

  Janet Napolitano

  Running, Together, Steps

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• Tom Coburn never forgot that members of Congress are spending the hard-earned money of the people back home. Even a lot of conservatives end up forgetting that. Here's hoping that back in the private sector, Tom Coburn keeps up the fight for his beliefs and that he remains a constant reminder to lawmakers and the White House of ethical standards to which all should aspire.

  John Fund

  Home, Fighting, White

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• When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

  Trey Gowdy

  People, Feel Good, Want

  "Bonuses give taxpayers $70 million more reasons to hate the IRS". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Government should take management lesson from private sector.

  Newt Gingrich

  Government, Lessons, Management

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