Private Sector Quotes - Page 4

• These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

  Bill Gates

  Education, Technology, Opportunity

  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007), Bill Gates (2008). “Competitiveness and innovation on the Committee's 50th anniversary with Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft: hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, March 12, 2008”

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• I think we should, as the public sector or politicians, stop creating an illusion that it is the public sector that drives growth and jobs. It is not. It is the private sector that does it. There is no growth without entrepreneurship.

  Alexander Stubb

  Jobs, Thinking, Creating

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• Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

  Gavyn Davies

  Diversity, Would Be, Television

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• Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Class, Upset, Kind

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• To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

  Tom Vilsack

  Moving, Epidemics, Effort

  "Securing Our Future Through Our Children’s Health" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2010.

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• Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

  Robin Hayes

  Running, United States, Nonprofits

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• I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Opposites, Needs

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• History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

  Jon Meacham

  Government, America, Wish

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• The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

  Jon Meacham

  War, America, Government

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• I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

  J. C. Watts

  Children, School, Thinking

  "J.C. Watts exits political arena". Interview with Paul Begala, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2002.

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• A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Limited Resources, Debt

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.

  Jesse Ventura

  Government, Average, Salary

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• I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

  Jesse Ventura

  Waiting, Politics, Want

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.13, Villard

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• The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Jobs, Administration

  "Defense Secretary Robert Gates' Exit Interview; Jon Stewart Talks Politics, Media Bias". www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

  John Sununu

  Senior, Jobs, Motivation

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• Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.

  Gordon Smith

  Jobs, Records, Creation

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• I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Economic, Disaster

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2012.

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• You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Growth, Balance

  "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 2, 2011.

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• If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

  Alveda King

  War, Black, Growth

  "Why the Establishment Wants to Destroy Herman Cain" by Dr. Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. November 9, 2011.

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• Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Groups, Resent

  "The Subsidies are Coming". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 12, 2013.

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• My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

  Dick Cheney

  Jobs, Government, Way

  "State of the Union" with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 16, 2009.

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• Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

  Jesse Ventura

  Jobs, Government, President

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• I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Politician, Great Things

  "Henry Rollins Answers Your Questions About Politics". Interview with AV Club, www.avclub.com. April 19, 2007.

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• If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Names, People, Enemy

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• The value of money comes from the private sector in the form of price for product, services rendered, what people are willing to pay for something they want or need. That's where value happens. Government has nothing to do with that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, People, Needs

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